The United States’ Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) director, Kelly Hammett, has revealed that in January 2023, America quietly launched a payload designed to detect Chinese satellite tracking in space.
According to Air & Space Forces Magazine, Hammet, addressing a media roundtable at the Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colorado, on March 5, said the technology alerts its operators when detected and will thus be deployed on all Space Force satellites.
Hammett, explaining that the current prototype can tell if it is being “observed, tracked [or] targeted,” said that since the space vehicles were launched, his division received “very interesting data.”…