Interview: How the US plans to improve its missile warning satellites
Nathan Strout
WASHINGTON — The ballistic missile attack on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq about a year ago provides one of the starkest examples of how America’s missile warning satellites operate.
U.S. Space Force leadership has credited the guardians operating the Space-Based Infrared System with saving lives in that attack, having provided the critical warning that missiles were inbound and allowing war fighters to seek cover seconds before the missiles hit the bases. One year later, members of the 2nd Space Warning Squadron took C4ISRNET inside what it was like operating the SBIRS constellation that night with American lives on the line.
In a separate interview, Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt, commander of the Combined Force Space Component Command, spoke with C4ISRNET about what the military has learned since that attack, how the Space Force works to keep its guardians prepared, and what’s next for America’s space-based missile warning architecture.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2021/01/22/interview-how-the-us-plans-to-improve-its-missile-warning-satellites/
