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Air Force

Use Of Commercial Imagery Under TacSRT Likely To Grow, Space Force Official Says

Frank Wolfe

Friday, March 13th, 2026

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Use Of Commercial Imagery Under TacSRT Likely To Grow, Space Force Official Says

Pictured is a BlackSky photo of what the company said is an image depicting indications of Russia’s military withdrawal from the port of Sevastopol in 2023.

Military use of commercial imagery through Space Systems Command's tactical surveillance, reconnaisance, and tracking (TacSRT) effort is likely to grow, a U.S. Space Force official said on Friday. TacSRT has "continued to develop as we move forward, really making sure that we can provide a linkage between operational commanders in the field and if their needs aren't being satisfied by national resources, which many of them are, then being able to pull in commercial resources and get answers to hard…

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