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SPACECOM Chief: Maneuver Needed For High Value Satellites

SPACECOM Chief: Maneuver Needed For High Value Satellites
Pictured is a U.S. Space Command photo of Robert Carlisle (left), the CEO of Argo Space Corp., speaking with U.S. Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of U.S. Space Command, during a discussion at the Apollo Insight Commercial Integration tabletop exercise in Colorado Springs, Colo. on March 23.

While safety in numbers is a defining trait of low Earth orbit satellites, including those in the Space Development Agency's future Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, key geosynchronous orbit satellites, such as those for nuclear command and control and nuclear warning, will need to maneuver, U.S. Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of U.S. Space Command, said on Tuesday. "We don't want to fight from a static position," he told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies forum. "If you're not…

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