The commander of Air Force Space Command detailed challenges of the space community during the Air Force Association’s Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition here Sept. 14.
Gen. C. Robert Kehler outlined how leverage, integration and innovative thinking can all bring the space community into the future with existing assets.
“In 1957 there was one man-made object in Earth’s orbit,” said General Kehler. “In 2010 the catalog contains more than 20,000 that we can track; and there are estimates out there for the objects that we can’t track. We have watched the amount of things in space grow exponentially. Then, there were a few participants in the space business, now there are many participants that are capable.”
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