TraCSS will go above and beyond DoD's current collision warning process by publicly providing the specifics of a potential crash in what are deemed emergency situations, explained Mariel Borowitz, OSC director of international SSA engagement.
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.
Modeling and simulation get an AI upgrade for more realistic training and improved autonomous platforms.
"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.
The Office of Space Commerce, in part, is trying to define the scope of what "basic" services it will provide for free, and what else it might do for a fee.
Space Force has established the new 19th Space Defense Squadron to monitor what officials now refer to as "xGEO" space.
Space Force's 18th Space Control Squadron was "re-designated" on April 13 as the "18th Space Defense Squadron," but will remain SPACECOM's key provider of space domain awareness.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its "old clunker" SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
"My number one priority within the command is: how do I increase my battlespace awareness, in particular, how do I look at the space domain?" SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson said.
There is one bright spot in the ongoing US-China space traffic brouhaha: Beijing has begun publishing for the first time the basic orbital positions of its crewed space station.
"We invest in high-risk, high-payoff research to support some of the most difficult challenges to the IC," IARPA program manager Alexis Truitt told Breaking Defense. And debris is "one of the hardest challenges that is affecting satellites worldwide."
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
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.
"Clearly an exchange of diplomatic notes is better than an exchange of Twitter fire (or worse). But diplomatic notes won’t fill in the gaps in space governance and traffic safety," Jessica West of Canada's Project Ploughshares said.
"I think there are more questions than answers right now when it comes to SJ-21," Todd Harrison, director of CSIS's Aerospace Project, told Breaking Defense.
The COMSPOC analysis shows that the bulk of the some 1,500 debris pieces being tracked by Space Command's 18th Space Control Squadron will de-orbit within about three years time.