Space Force to loft 2 new ‘neighborhood watch’ sats, as leader frets launch funds


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WASHINGTON: The Space Force is set this afternoon for its first launch in 2022 under the National Security Space Launch program, with two new Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites aboard. Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond told the Mitchell Institute on Tuesday that the maneuverable GSSAP satellites have “a really important mission” in helping to establish space domain awareness (SDA) . The program has allowed the Space Force to move from just simply locating space objects — finding “an address for something in space” — to being able to have “insights into what those capabilities are” in...