Pictured is the U.S. Space Command Joint Operations Center, what the command calls the commander’s strategic-level command and control node. The middle receives constant inputs from functional and repair component operations centers, national government agencies, space partners, and extra world-wide data sources to evaluate the space domain, detect significant events, provide a unified operational picture and supervise execution of USSPACECOM’s authorities, operations and capabilities., the command said (U.S. Space Command Photo)
A big step up in space domain awareness to counter China is a key focus for U.S. Space Command in the following several years.
“One area that I feel we now have to make some rapid gains in is, we now have probably have the smallest amount of awareness of any…