SPACEPOWER 2025 — The Space Force intends go solo in developing a follow-on to the classified SILENTBARKER space surveillance constellation currently operated in tandem with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), according to a senior service official.
“The partnership with the NRO today is great and strong, [but we are] working to fully transition that [mission] to the Space Force for the future acquisition,” Col. Brendan Hochstein, commander of Space System Command’s new(ish) Combat Power System Delta (Delta 89), said today.
“We’re going to leverage what’s on orbit today, lessons learned there, but also what we’re doing on the reconnaissance mission with RG-XX,” he told reporters in the margins of the Space Force Association’s Spacepower 2025…
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