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US Space Force creates 1st unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites

Space.com

By Brett Tingley

August 16, 2023

The United States Space Force has activated its first and only unit dedicated to targeting other nations’ satellites and the ground stations that support them.

 

The 75th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron (ISRS) was activated on Aug. 11 at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado. This unit is part of Space Delta 7, an element of the U.S. Space Force tasked with providing intelligence on adversary space capabilities. It’ll do things like analyze the capabilities of potential targets, locate and track these targets as well as participate in “target engagement,” which presumably refers to destroying or disrupting adversary satellites, the ground stations that support them and transmissions sent between the two.

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