{"id":54329,"date":"2022-12-02T01:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/commercial-space-key-for-domain-awareness-spacecom-commander-says\/"},"modified":"2022-12-02T01:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:52:28","slug":"commercial-space-key-for-domain-awareness-spacecom-commander-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/commercial-space-key-for-domain-awareness-spacecom-commander-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Space Key for Domain Awareness, SPACECOM Commander Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Commercial space is becoming key for the U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong> to detect, analyze and respond to threats, a top official said on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of today, we\u2019ve got about 120 commercial mission partners working with us,\u201d Army Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command<\/strong> (SPACECOM), told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies\u2019 Schriever Spacepower Forum. \u201cWe have a Commercial Integration Cell at Vandenberg Space Force Base \u2014 an area where commercial entities have operations consoles that are side-by-side with our military operators exchanging information near real time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Formed in 2015, the Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) is to aid commercial-military communications integration and the protection of U.S. and allied satellites and to build awareness of space threats. The 10 CIC companies include Inmarsat, Iridium Communications, Maxar Technologies, and Viasat.<\/p>\n

\u201cLikewise, in Colorado Springs, we have a Commercial Operations Cell that supports the Joint Task Force-Space Defense,\u201d Dickinson said on Nov. 29. \u201cThis cell enables real time synergy and information exchange between our owner-operators and tactical users. This information exchange ensures that our industry partners and our operators can rapidly and accurately respond to anomalies on orbit, share valuable lessons learned and improve our overall readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

One example of commercial space domain awareness prowess occurred in January, when Virginia-based ExoAnalytic Solutions reported that China\u2019s ShiJian-21 (SJ-21) Geosynchronous (GEO) satellite had pulled a BeiDou-2 navigation satellite into a \u201cgraveyard\u201d orbit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen SJ-21 broke away, the commercial partner quickly tracked its movement 300 kilometers above GEO and watched it return,\u201d Dickinson said on Nov. 29. \u201cIt\u2019s because a commercial company, in this example, did this that I can talk about it without revealing any type of classified information. This is critical as we increase our space domain awareness capability as well as capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April, Space Command released a Commercial Integration Strategy to guide the command\u2019s efforts to work with commercial industry to leverage the explosion of relevant space-related developments in the private sector at lower cost and to put the command and industry on a common path to work together.<\/p>\n

The strategy includes three pillars aimed at getting the command to its strategic end state by meeting its needs to boost space power to give it \u201cspace superiority across the conflict continuum, thereby ensuring there is never a day without space.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pillars are described as ways, and the first way is benefiting from commercial-off-the-shelf products to quickly acquire and refresh capabilities in a number of priority areas, including command and control battle management systems, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence\/machine learning (AI\/ML) and big data management, modeling and simulation (M&S) systems, space control systems, and satellite communications satellites and terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commercial space is becoming key for the U.S. Department of Defense to detect, analyze and respond to threats, a top official said on Nov. 29. \u201cAs of today, we\u2019ve got about 120 commercial mission partners working with us,\u201d Army Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM), told a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}