The Space Force has terminated its contract with RTX (formerly Raytheon)

The Space Force has terminated its contract with RTX (formerly Raytheon)for development of the service’s new missile warning/tracking constellation in medium Earth orbit (MEO) due to cost and schedule overruns, as well as technical issues.

“Space Systems Command will discontinue their Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) with Raytheon (RTX) to build three missile warning/missile tracking (MW/MT) space vehicles for the Resilient MW/MT Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Epoch 1 program. At the end of May, the MEO Missile Warning, Tracking, and Defense Delta notified RTX that it would be discontinuing its contractual agreement to produce missile warning/missile tracking satellites after a successful design closure event in June 2024,” the spokesperson said in an email.

“This was done because the RTX Epoch 1 development effort was facing significant cost growth from the original agreement baseline, projecting slips to the launch schedule, and had unresolved design challenges,”

https://breakingdefense.com/2024/06/space-force-boots-rtx-from-meo-missile-warning-tracking-program/