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in 2019, the [Combined Space Operations Center] received 764 requests for space support from forces overseas—a 400 percent increase over the previous year. It tracked 762 missile launches around the globe; sent notifications 105 times to tell someone an adversary satellite had moved (and tracked 340 foreign satellite maneuvers); resolved satellite communications signal interference 189 times; and built about 11,000 space weather reports.”
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The CSpOC is a secretive command-and-control organization that tracks objects in space and acts as a liaison between those who operate military space assets and those who need their services. But Brodeur wants to make the center’s work truer to its name.
He is leaving the CSpOC this summer to run the National Space Defense Center, the Colorado-based counterpart that focuses on defending satellites and other assets from harm. The colonel is only planting the seeds for a better CSpOC now, and is just one voice in a fledgling service charting its future day by day. But if his plan succeeds, it could outlast him to shape international military space cooperation for decades.
The CSpOC was formed out of the Joint Space Operations Center in July 2018, evolving from a multiservice group that focused solely on using space assets to support combat operations. Now-Space Force boss Gen. Jay Raymond proposed the CSpOC become a new kind of center. It would continue the old mission, but while building closer partnerships with commercial companies, academia, civilian agencies, and strengthening outreach to other countries.
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