“Transitioning the spaceflight safety SSA responsibilities to DoC, a civil agency, will improve support to these users and allow DoD to focus its resources on core defense missions,” John Hill, DoD’s senior space policy officer, said.
By Theresa HitchensDisplay screens are the eyes for maneuver forces needing to command and control
The Army is upfitting vehicles with big 24 or 32-inch displays that present multiple sources of data for a full operational picture.
In discussing the preliminary version of TraCSS, Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce, revealed to Breaking Defense that he’s stepping down at the end of the year.
By Theresa Hitchens
All five contractors — COMSPOC, Kayhan Space, LeoLabs, Slingshot Aerospace, and SpaceNav — received new orders, bringing total “spending over the course of the Consolidated Pathfinder to $15.5 million,” according to an announcement by the Office of Space Commerce.
By Theresa Hitchens
A global ecosystem that shares space situational awareness data can secure a safe future for space, but much greater international coordination is needed, according to a new document from the Office of Space Commerce.
By Michael Marrow “It’s not going to be like a ‘boom’ milestone delivery where one day there’s nothing and the next day, there’s a finished system,” Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce, said of the swap from DoD to Commerce.
By Theresa Hitchens
A new “white paper” from Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, obtained by Breaking Defense, stresses the foundational role of timely space domain awareness in ensuring that Space Force commanders are not caught flat-footed by adversaries.
By Theresa Hitchens “I would imagine that as Department of Commerce continues to mature this concept, we will definitely want to take advantage of what they’re doing,” said Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein.
By Theresa Hitchens
Take lessons learned from joint exercises and turn them into capabilities
The real advantage comes when legacy, new, next generation and cutting-edge systems can work together in the battlespace.
While the new Russian satellite didn’t get super close to any others, its behavior “could be considered unfriendly,” said Slingshot’s Audrey Schaffer, who until recently served as the director of space policy at the National Security Council.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Commercial data, commercial processing is not classified. It does not matter that the DoD wishes it were,” said Barbara Golf, special advisor to Space Systems Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
The COMSPOC study included a look at risks from unannounced rendezvous and proximity operations — such as those being routinely performed by the Russian “inspector” satellite Luch/Olymp that have raised hackles at the Defense Department — and the risks to US military satellites cause by mis-plotting the trajectories of adversary birds.
By Theresa Hitchens
“We’re talking about a shipping container that includes everything: the power supply, the generator, the batteries, all of the computers, all of the antennas that will fit inside,” CEO James Palmer said. “You can put it into an area where you wish to get some coverage, deploy the aperture out, and within half-a-day you’re up and running and observing stuff in Low Earth Orbit completely covertly.”
By Colin Clark NOAA next week will issue first requests for proposal to industry asking for help in setting requirements for an unclassified space tracking and collision warning system, said Steve Volz, who currently manages the effort.
By Theresa Hitchens The MITRE-developed software has been transferred to Space Systems Command for operational prototyping.
By Theresa Hitchens
Given “aggressive and warlike actions, threatening actions, by space competitors, it’s important for us to have an entity that is focused entirely on space defense, and space capability,” said Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett of the new Space Force.
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