Space Force Found a Satellite Lost in Space for 25 Years

he short NBC News documentary Battlefield Space took viewers inside Space Force, the newest branch of the United States military, for a look at its efforts to safeguard the final frontier. The organization’s stated mission is both broad and vague: to secure the interests of the U.S. and deter aggression in, from, and to space. While that might conjure images of space soldiers piloting tactical spacecraft in orbital dogfights, it mostly amounts to keeping an eye on the skies. The many duties of Space Force include but are not limited to Space Domain Awareness, which mostly amounts to detection, identification, tracking, and cataloging of satellites and space debris. More

(Source: Syfy - May 24)