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AGI Expects Its SSA Center To Level With Air Force SSA Catalog

Pat Host

Friday, April 1st, 2016

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AGI Expects Its SSA Center To Level With Air Force SSA Catalog

View from inside Analytical Graphics' (AGI) Commercial Space Operations Center (ComSpOC). Photo: AGI.

Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) is confident that its Commercial Space Operations Center (ComSpOC) will grow by the end of 2016 to track the same number of objects in space as can be found in the Defense Department's Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC).ComSpOC, through AGI and partners, has 70 telescopes aimed primarily at geostationary earth orbit (GEO) today, along with two radar sensors for low earth orbit (LEO). With this sensor network, the company provides space situational awareness (SSA) services such…

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