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ATLAS Space Domain Awareness System to Be Operational Next Year, U.S. Space Force Says

ATLAS Space Domain Awareness System to Be Operational Next Year, U.S. Space Force Says
ATLAS is to integrate Space Domain Awareness (SDA) inputs from a variety of sensors. Pictured is the Boeing Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) satellite, launched in 2010 (Image Courtesy of Boeing)

The U.S. Space Force's (USSF) ATLAS is to be operational by the spring of next year, and the service expects the system by L3Harris Technologies [LHX] to lead to a dramatic increase in the speed of processing and integrating space domain awareness data from a variety of commercial, civil, and military space sensors. Omitron and Parsons Corp. [PSN] are subcontractors on USSF Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) ATLAS, which is to replace the Space Defense Operations Center (SPADOC), a space situational…

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