AF observing orbital rendezvous missions to practice space surveillance

The Air Force's space surveillance network is remotely observing orbital rendezvous missions such as DART and the XSS-11 mission to gauge its ability to detect possible threats to satellites, according to an Air Force official. Before the DART mission, Air Force space surveillance personnel decided...

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