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Space RCO Director: Effort to Modernize Aging Network for Controlling Satellites ‘On Track’

Dec. 21, 2023 | By Greg Hadley
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office, charged with quickly delivering cutting-edge, often-classified technologies for the Space Force, has made key progress in its push to modernize the aging system used to control U.S. government satellites, its director revealed last week. Additionally, the secretive organization deployed “threat ...

Space Force Satellite Control Network Is In Urgent Need of Upgrades, Watchdog Says

April 11, 2023 | By David Roza
The Space Force system for controlling a wide range of critical government satellites is growing old, inefficient and unable to keep up with rising demand, the Government Accountability Office warned in a new report. The Satellite Control Network (SCN) is made up of 19 antennas ...

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