We provide warning to whomever it poses a threat to. We have a very close tie with NASA so that we protect the International Space Station and to human beings in orbit. So you're keeping track of this stuff. Let's say you find an object, an old satellite, something else that does pose a threat. What do you do? Well we provide warning to anybody and everybody who operates a spacecraft. Move their satellite, assume the risk and hope that it doesn't hit them those horsebacks.
The US Space Force, established in 2019, is the first new branch of the military to be created since 1947, and its mission is vast: defend US interests in space. But what exactly is the Space Force? And what does defending US interests in space mean or look like practically?
As the nearly $900 billion defense spending bill winds its way through Congress, Wes went to the Pentagon to sit down with General David Thompson, the Vice Chief of Space Operations to learn what US interests in space are, and how the branch is developing. Bloomberg cybersecurity reporter Katrina Manson joins later to describe her visit to Space Command in Colorado and the importance of the US keeping a watch on its adversaries in zero gravity.
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