The United States’ Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) director, Kelly Hammett, has revealed that in January 2023, America quietly launched a payload designed to detect Chinese satellite tracking in space.
According to Air & Space Forces Magazine, Hammet, addressing a media roundtable at the Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado, on March 5, said the technology alerts its operators when detected and will thus be deployed on all Space Force satellites.
Hammett, explaining that the current prototype can tell if it is being “observed, tracked [or] targeted,” said that since the space vehicles were launched, his division received “very interesting data.”
The payload was fired into space by aerospace, defense, and security company Northrop Gruman, which confirmed the launch in a Jan. 16, 2023, report: “Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE)-3A spacecraft launched successfully in support of the USSF-67 mission.”
The webpage said that the spacecraft allowed for quick transit into space and noted that the launch was the third in the corporation’s LDPE project. […]
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