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?”
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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.