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REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama – Soldiers and civilians collaborate to ensure warfighters are prepared to use Army’s latest satellite.
U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Technical Center civilians are educating Soldiers on operating the Warfighter Assisting Low Earth Orbit Tracker, or WALT, antenna and Kestrel Eye Ground Station, or KEGS. The training allows Soldiers to support overhead satellite passes for the Kestrel Eye demonstration program.
“We are training the Soldiers from the start,” said Dr. Matthew Hitt, SMDC Tech Center Concepts Analysis Laboratory, or CAL, general engineer. “We have been working with the Soldiers on training them for Kestrel Eye operations, both on how to run the WALT antenna and also the Kestrel Eye Ground Station to get them to the point of being able to operate an overhead pass independently. We want them to be able to collect all the data, archive it and get it out to who needs it.
