SDF launch 1st space unit to monitor threats to satellites
The Self-Defense Forces on Monday launched Japan's first space operation unit tasked with monitoring space debris, asteroids and other threats to artificial satellites.
The Air Self-Defense Force's space domain mission unit, based in Fuchu, western Tokyo, will cooperate with U.S. forces and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in establishing a space situational awareness, or SSA, system that will help them to share information on such threats, the Defense Ministry said.
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