The U.S. Air Force released an unclassified report created by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center detailing developing trends in the space domain and the growing challenges posed by foreign space assets. The report, titled “Competing in Space,” was created at the request of Air Force senior leaders to serve as a discussion tool for the public. The 25-page unclassified document uses a combination of images, assessments, and projections to characterize the increasing threats to U.S. and allied use of space, and presents an outlook for the continued evolution of these trends. NASIC’s mission is to discover and characterize air, space, missile and cyber threats to enable full-spectrum multi-domain operations, drive weapon system acquisition and inform national defense policy. NASIC products helps create advantage, giving policymakers, warfighters and the acquisition community a war-winning edge.
This image was created for the Space Situational Awareness section of the “Competing in Space” unclassified report, depicting the various categories of sensors used for space situational awareness (e.g., ground-based radars, telescopes, signals intercept antennas, and space-based sensors). Terrestrial and space-based sensors search the sky for foreign satellites, chart their orbits, and determine the function and operational status. This is a continuous process, first in a sequence of steps that a potential adversary will use to target satellites, launch counterspace weapons and assess the effectiveness of an attack.
| Date Taken: | 01.11.2019 |
| Published: | 02-19-20 07:53 AM |
| Graphic ID: | 9654 |
| VIRIN: | 190111-F-HF064-002 |
| Size: | 8.28 MB |
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