Over the next year, the US space forces plan to launch a new group of reconnaissance satellites to track terrestrial mobile goals. This was reported by the American military edition of Defense One.
Future devices are designed to monitor the movements of objects both on land and on the water surface. The source refers to the deputy head of the space operations department of the US space forces, Lieutenant General Deanna Bert.
According to Lieutenant General Bert, we are talking about the Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) program-a joint project of the US space forces and the National Military Space Directorate (NRO).
The GMTI program was initiated with the aim of replenishing the reconnaissance deficit for the Pentagon, which arose after the decommissioning in 2023 of combat control and target designations E-8 Joint Survelance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) of the US Air Force.
Bert also noted that the US space forces have already launched several auxiliary satellites as part of the declared program, including communications satellites and radar devices.
The new group of satellites will provide intelligence data to mainly units of the Indo-Pacific Command of the US Armed Forces. Another information is classified.
