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WASHINGTON: US Space Command is working to improve its capability to keep tabs on what is happening in space — including looking to ground- and ship-based missile defense platforms as additional sources of much-needed data, SPACECOM head Gen. Jim Dickinson said today.

“My number one priority within the command is: how do I increase my battlespace awareness, in particular, how do I look at the space domain?” he told the Air Force Association’s annual conference in Orlando.

To do that, SPACECOM has been trying to figure out how to integrate “nontraditional sensors” into its network of ground- and space-based radar and telescopes that keep tabs on objects in space, Dickinson said.

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