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The Space Force considers a new mission: tactical satellite imagery February 3 The Kestrel Eye is a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite prototype designed to provide near-real-time images to the tactical-level ground Soldier. Kestrel Eye was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as a payload aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 14, 2017 (Photo courtesy of SMDTC). WASHINGTON The U.S. Space Force is still in its early days, but leaders are already considering adding a new mission for Guardians: providing tactical satellite imagery for beyond-line-of-sight targeting. “That’s something that we’re thinking through as we speak. I’ve got a group of folks doing some work on what that design might look like,” Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, the chief of space operations, said Feb. 3 during a Defense Writers Group call.
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The Army’s TITAN ground station will link ISR sensors based in space, on land and in the air.
WASHINGTON: A shift in Army and Navy space resources i.e., capabilities and funds to the Space Force is not likely to appear in the DoD budget request until 2023, says Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond.
“Those decisions are being finalized now. The FY-22 budget has largely been baked, so I would say that this will be addressed in the next budget,” he told reporters at a Defense Writers Group briefing this am.
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A flip remark drew some criticism, and a clarification.
The Space Force is here to stay.
The Biden administration has no plans to get rid of the military’s newest branch, championed by former President Trump and eventually approved by Congress.
“They absolutely have the full support of the Biden Administration,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday. “We are not revisiting the decision to establish the Space Force.”
Psaki’s comments came one day after she drew criticism from some lawmakers for what they called insulting comments about the branch of the military and its members, newly termed guardians. When asked by a member of the press on Tuesday whether Biden planned to eliminate the Space Force, Psaki compared the question to a reporter’s question last month asking if Biden planned to change the color scheme of Air Forc