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The July reverse industry days on space domain awareness will allow Space Systems Command to get a closer look at the myriad industry efforts to see what the service might be able to simply acquire rather than have to develop itself.
"It's a big acknowledgement that [Low Earth Orbit] is expanding rapidly. It's of national importance. It's of commercial importance. And there's a need to have more eyes on the sky," CEO Dan Ceperley told Breaking Defense in an interview.
"What we're trying to do is just like you do with your financial portfolios, where you diversify your financial portfolio, so you don't go broke if one stock takes a tumble. We want to do the same thing with our satellite architecture," said CSO Gen. Jay Raymond.
Space Force has established the new 19th Space Defense Squadron to monitor what officials now refer to as "xGEO" space.
The Army, in particular, is looking for a "magic bullet" — one antenna that can receive SATCOM signals from constellations in LEO, MEO and GEO. But it may be disappointed due to the laws of physics, says Rick Lober, VP of defense and intelligence systems at Hughes.