Ground and Space Sensors for Space Domain Awareness
Maintaining a Resilient Recognised Space Picture for Operational Decision-Making
Ground and space sensors for space domain awareness address a decisive operational failure mode: the inability to produce and sustain a recognised space picture with sufficient timeliness, fidelity and resilience for operational decision-making in a contested domain. The operational problem is not the absence of policy or strategy for space security, but the insufficiency of sensing, tracking, identification and data fusion capacity required to detect, characterise and attribute events in orbit before they generate cascading disruption to space-enabled military and civilian services. As space becomes increasingly congested, contested and strategically consequential, this tactical capability functions as the upstream intelligence and warning layer that enables attribution, collision avoidance, anomaly investigation and protective actions across the broader space-security architecture.