Space Force Considers More Units To Operate SDA Tranches

Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman speaks at an enlisted leader summit at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

 

Credit: U.S. Air Force
COLORADO SPRINGS—The launch of dozens of satellites for a proliferated low-Earth-orbit constellation focused on missile warning and tracking could require more operational units within the Space Force to handle it, and the service is figuring out just how it would need to grow. The Space Development...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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