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Monitoring the heavens: Space Force has 1,000 ‘priority targets,’ 600 sensors

Besides tracking adversary satellites, said Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, deputy chief of space operations for intelligence, “sometimes I want to be looking at my own object to see if anything’s going on, right?” 

Space Force Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, deputy chief of space operations for intelligence. (US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Olivia Stecker)

WASHINGTON — The Space Force’s head of intelligence says the service currently is keeping a very close eye on about 1,000 satellites — both those owned by adversaries and some US birds that might be threatened by adversaries — via a much expanded network of radars and telescopes around the globe.