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Space

Space Delta 11 to Scale Up Training to Improve Satellite Protection, Function

Frank Wolfe

Friday, December 16th, 2022

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Space Delta 11 to Scale Up Training to Improve Satellite Protection, Function

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman speaks at the transition ceremony for the chief of space operations at Joint Base Andrews, Md. on Nov. 2 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

In keeping with direction from Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force's Space Delta 11 unit plans to scale up training in the next several years to improve the protection and function of U.S. satellites. "What I perceive in the next maybe one to three years is an ability to have a threat surrogate on orbit that's not going to do any threatening, but it might have the dimensions and the orbitology of sometihng on orbit…

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