DARPA Solicits Ideas for Tracking Objects in Low Earth Orbit Blind Spot

摘要

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking for new ways to track objects in what has long been a blind spot for the Pentagon's Space Surveillance Network, according to a posting on the Federal Business Opportunities website. The broad agency announcement, posted Dec. 13, calls for white papers on ideas to track objects in low-inclination, low Earth orbit. The proposals would track objects greater than 10 centimeters across in orbits with an altitude of less than 1,000 kilometers and inclination of 20 degrees or less relative to the equator.