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U.S. Space Force “Project Apollo” to Help Unveil Adversary Cloaking in Space

U.S. Space Force “Project Apollo” to Help Unveil Adversary Cloaking in Space
The National Space Defense Center at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. is to provide threat-focused space domain awareness. Established in 2015, the center falls under U.S. Space Command's Joint Task Force-Space Defense (U.S. Space Force Photo)

The new "Project Apollo" by the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) is to embark upon three-month innovation cycles to tackle major space domain awareness problems, among them the misidentification of threat objects. "From a set of features (behaviors, orbital data, photometry, radar cross section, RF emissions, other), classify and identify space objects within seconds," SSC said in a description of what the command wants to improve object identification in space. "Evaluate potentially mis-identified objects which may be adversary…

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