U.S. Space Force Accelerates Space-Based MTI Fielding Push

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Service leaders are bullish that hybrid satellite constellations can track moving targets from space.

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The Department of the U.S. Air Force is moving quickly to field systems that can track moving targets on the ground and in the air from space as leadership states that the technology has been proven on orbit. Space-based air and ground moving target indication (MTI) are emerging mission areas for...
Vivienne Machi

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles.

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