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Texas and U.K. Second and Third DARC Sites

Texas and U.K. Second and Third DARC Sites
An internal view of the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) inside the dome at the Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt Sensor Site near Exmouth, Western Australia. On 30 Sep 2022, Australia and the United States declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the deep space-tracking SST, originally built under a DARPA and MIT Lincoln Labs' effort and moved from White Sands Missile Range, N.M. (Photo on U.S. Space Force website)

The U.S. Space Force's first site for the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) is to start operations in Exmouth in the Western Australian Outback in 2026, and a top Department of the Air Force official said on May 21 that the second and third sites will be in Texas and the United Kingdom. For space domain awareness, "we are taking advantage of commercial [systems], where we can," Frank Calvelli, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition…

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