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Air Force

Kehler: Exploiting Non-Traditional Modes of Data Could Improve Space Awareness

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Friday, December 14th, 2007

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By Michael Sirak Leveraging data from sensors not traditionally associated with space surveillance, such as those on aircraft like the F-22 stealth fighter, could improve the Air Force's understanding of orbital activities, the vital underpinning of protecting satellites from threats, according to the Air Force's top space general. "Any platform that we put out anywhere in the globe doing sensing as part of its mission, I believe, has the potential to contribute to something as unrelated-seeming as space situational awareness,"…

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