{"id":56420,"date":"2021-10-22T23:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/us-space-force-seeks-better-awareness-of-geo\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T23:50:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:50:50","slug":"us-space-force-seeks-better-awareness-of-geo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/us-space-force-seeks-better-awareness-of-geo\/","title":{"rendered":"US Space Force Seeks Better Awareness of GEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>\u2019s Space Systems Command is seeking information from companies able to provide sensors to improve the space domain awareness of objects in Geostationary Orbit (GEO).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has identified a need for evolutionary or revolutionary space-based SDA [Space Domain Awareness] sensors to augment current and planned systems by providing frequent, timely, assured volume revisit of significant portions of the GEO belt with real-time or near-real-time downlink and processing of collected data,\u201d per a request for information notice on Oct. 20. \u201cAs hosted payloads, these sensors should support a scalable architecture that can extend coverage as hosting opportunities arise.&nbsp; The goal is to demonstrate militarily useful, space-based SDA hosted sensor concepts with significantly lower recurring engineering costs [less than or equal to $10 million].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John \u201cJay\u201d Raymond has said that improving space domain awareness is a priority for the service. In June, Space Force&nbsp;launched a Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) demonstration satellite from a <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> Pegasus XL rocket to provide improved awareness in Low-Earth orbit (LEO), and Space Force delivered the TacRL-2 satellite for launch in 11 months, a more than five-fold reduction in the normal delivery time, Raymond said in July.<\/p>\n<p>Space Force has said that its Space Safari program office, which is to integrate mature technologies quickly to respond to needs, supported TacRL-2 as the office\u2019s first mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USSF will use this information to improve upcoming TacRL missions with the Space Safari office planned to launch in 2022 and 2023,\u201d Space Force said. \u201cTactically Responsive Launch is the first step toward the USSF acquiring a tactical space mobility and logistics capability to support combatant command\u2019s future requirements for tactical spacepower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new request for information indicates that Space Force also is looking for better Space Domain Awareness of GEO.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, \u201cthe government initiated a broad agency announcement (BAA) for a hosted payload concept design review and prototype development,\u201d per the RFI. \u201cThe BAA attempted to identify, develop, and demonstrate concepts for low-cost, low size, weight, and power (SWaP) hosted space-based sensors to improve Space Domain Awareness of the GEO belt.&nbsp; In the next few years, the government intends to follow up the prototype effort with a competition for a formal ACAT production program.&nbsp; The production program will notionally produce 3-4 payloads per year and will be launched on various space vehicles including international hosts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published by our sister publication Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command is seeking information from companies able to provide sensors to improve the space domain awareness of objects in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). \u201cThe government has identified a need for evolutionary or revolutionary space-based SDA [Space Domain Awareness] sensors to augment current and planned systems by providing frequent, timely, assured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56421,"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-56420","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\/56420"}],"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=56420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}