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U.S. Space Command Looks to Accelerate Enhancement of Space Domain Awareness

U.S. Space Command Looks to Accelerate Enhancement of Space Domain Awareness
Pictured is the U.S. Space Command Joint Operations Center, what the command calls the commander’s strategic-level command and control node. The center receives constant inputs from functional and service component operations centers, national government agencies, space partners, and additional world-wide data sources to assess the space domain, detect significant events, provide a unified operational picture and supervise execution of USSPACECOM’s authorities, operations and capabilities., the command said (U.S. Space Command Photo)

A significant step up in space domain awareness to counter China is a key focus for U.S. Space Command in the next several years. "One area that I think we have to make some rapid gains in is, we have probably have the least amount of awareness of any domain that any service is responsible for in the space domain," Maj Gen David Miller Jr., Space Command's director of operations, told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' virtual forum on…

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