Space Force successfully launches two satellites of "neighborhood surveillance" to control the "critical orbit" register for free to continue reading
Space Force successfully launched two “neighborhood surveillance” satellites that the new US military service will use to control the “critical orbit”.
The satellites were launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 feet (60 meters) height.
Space Force says that it will use satellites to monitor other high altitude satellites used by communications retransmission stations, military spacecraft, among others.
Los dos satélites del GSSAP (Programa de Conocimiento de la Situación del Espacio Geosincrónico) orbitarán la Tierra a unas 22.300 millas (35.888 kilómetros) sobre el ecuador.
At such a high altitude, 24 hours are needed to complete only one orbit of the Earth, which allows stable views of the planet.
This orbit is used mainly by commercial communications satellites, early alert and espionage and climate monitoring.
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Space Forze General, John Raymond, declared that GSSAP satellites, built by Northrop Grumman, gave them "a neighborhood surveillance capacity."
He added that the launch "allows us to better understand what happens in the domain, especially in a really critical orbit such as the geosynchronous orbit."
"Historically, the way in which we have watched or had knowledge of the domain is that we have made observations of radars or optical capabilities, and we have found an address in space, so to speak, of objects," he said.
But he added that knowing the general location of a satellite is not enough.
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"If you move to a domain of war, you must have more knowledge than only where something is," he added.
"You must have some ideas about what these capacities are, and this neighborhood surveillance capacity has given us a more complete vision of what is in space, specifically in the geosynchronous domain."
