Lockheed Martin's Space Fence System has passed critical design review.
The three-day test included the demonstration of "a small-scale system built with end-item components that detected and tracked orbiting space objects," according to a Lockheed Martin news release.
The Space Fence S-band radar system design, which will detect, track and catalog orbital objects in space more than 1.5 million times a day to predict and prevent space-based collisions, Lockheed Martin said.
"Completion of CDR marks the end of the design phase and the start of radar production and facility construction of the Space Fence system," said Steve Bruce, vice president for Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training Division.
Lockheed Martin also broke ground on the new six-acre Space Fence site earlier this year on Kwajalein Island, 2,100 miles southwest of Honolulu. The sensor site installation will include an on-site operations center and an annex to the current island power plant.
Initial operating capability is scheduled for 2018.
