The Missile Defense Agency is getting closer to naming a site for a European wing of ground-based interceptor missiles, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III, head of the Missile Defense Agency, at a conference in Huntsville, Ala., Tuesday. Likely candidates are Britain, the Czech Republic, or Poland. Obering told Reuters news service that the US would install 10 interceptors in Europe by 2011.
York Space Systems said it has confirmed the health of 21 satellites that launched July 16 as part of the Space Development Agency’s data transport constellation.