Space Force to Launch ‘Actual’ GMTI Sats ‘in the next year’: General

[PAF]

By Michael Marrow
August 04, 2025


Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the Space Force’s deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear, also said the service expects to complete an analysis of alternatives by this fall for a separate but related effort to track airborne targets from the heavens.

WASHINGTON — A joint project (Opens in a new window)between the Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office expects to launch satellites that can track targets on the ground or at sea as soon as next year, according to a top Space Force official.

Additionally, Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the Space Force’s deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear, said the service expects to complete an analysis of alternatives by this fall for a separate but related effort to track airborne targets from the heavens.

Speaking during a virtual discussion hosted by the Mitchell Institute today, Burt said that “initial satellites” that can enable ground moving target indication (GMTI) — Pentagon parlance for the job of tracking ground-based objects — “have been launching,” pointing to electro-optical sensors and “a low-end radar capability.” The Space Force has additionally sent up “quite a few” mesh network communications satellites that will facilitate data transfer, she said.



Full article:

Space Force to launch ‘actual’ GMTI sats ‘in the next year’: General - Breaking Defense

Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, the Space Force’s deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear, also said the service expects to complete an analysis of alternatives by this fall for a separate but related effort to track airborne targets from the heavens.

breakingdefense.com

 

[TheTexan]

I wonder how many vehicles they'll be able to track at once.

For now they'll probably only track high priority targets. Like PAF's vehicle

 

[Snowball]

I wonder how many vehicles they'll be able to track at once.

For now they'll probably only track high priority targets. Like PAF's vehicle

His plates are from '68, and they got deep purple valance balls hanging over them.
He must have sprayed them with polyeurethane to keep them so nice.