Space Force’s troubled space-tracking system is officially shut down
by Sandra Erwin — January 27, 2022
Rendering of Earth's orbit and space debris. Credit: U.S. Space Force
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WASHINGTON — The Space Force has closed down the last remaining piece of the Joint Mission System (JMS), a troubled software platform conceived more than a decade ago to help track satellites and orbital debris.
The Space Systems Command in a news release Jan. 26 said it began the decommissioning of JMS Service Pack 9, the final component of JMS. The U.S. Air Force in 2018 decided to terminate JMS following years of cost overruns and criticism for the system’s poor performance.
In place of JMS, the Space Force started an agile development software program called Space C2 (short for command and control) that relies on a commercial data analytics platform named Warp Core, provided by Palantir.
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