While the timeframe for certifying SDA’s Tracking Layer as part of the nuclear attack sensor network remains unclear, SDA Director Derek Tournear said there is “plenty of time” to get it done.
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When it comes to a common operating picture, not everyone needs the same equipment. What they need is the same situational awareness.
Defense giant hopes other firms will adopt the open-source interface system allowing plug-and-play in orbit.
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Space Development Agency will soon issue a request for proposals for the first 28 of its own missile tracking satellites in Low Earth Orbit, the agency’s chief said.
By Theresa Hitchens Given the concerns from across the congressional landscape about Next-Gen OPIR’s direction, “it’s a reasonable assumption that there’s some smoke somewhere there,” said Capital Alpha’s Byron Callan.
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A layered architecture of geosynchronous, medium-earth, and low-earth-orbit satellites will provide resilient sensor coverage for Joint All Domain Command and Control.
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SDA and MDA need to characterize the Earth’s infrared background — which has “a lot of complex shapes to it, clouds, land and stuff like that” — in order to “pull out the dim signal” of a hypersonic missile, an SDA official explained.
By Theresa Hitchens Space Force is actively considering whether its future missile warning and tracking satellites should be stationed in a wider range of orbits than in the past to improve the network’s accuracy and resiliency, an SMC official says.
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Two of the experiments, each involving two satellites, are focused on laser links: one between satellites themselves; the other from satellites to a MQ-9 Reaper drone on the ground.
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The funds will support potential new space missions such as re-fueling satellites on orbit.
By Theresa Hitchens The new SBIRS satellite, called SBIRS GEO 5, will be “the most advanced missile warning satellite” on orbit, said Lt. Col. Ryan Laughton, SMC’s program manager.
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“Information gathered up to and through Tracking Layer Tranche 0 will help inform decisions about future tranches, including how many and which types of sensors should be flown to provide the warfighter a complete advanced missile threat solution,” SDA spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea says.
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“The fiction that SDA and SMC are working together is just that,” said a former senior DoD space official. “You know, they make nicey-nicey, but, the reality is that they’re not working together.”
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“I think all orbital regimes are on the table,” said Lt. Gen. John Thompson, head of Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC).
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“Winning the future fight will require us to dominate space,” said Maj. Gen. John Pletcher, Air Force deputy assistant secretary for budget.
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