The military team of satellite trackers now goes on alert regularly

As you can imagine, it is a very sophisticated mission plan for some of these launches according to what we know about them. Admittedly, I cannot, in this environment, confirm or deny any of the specific launches … because I have access to more loyalty and more confidence on these launches, timing and what has there, but the precursor of the vast majority of all these launches is this mission plan.

This occurs at a very tactical level. It now puts strength. And it is a joint force. It is not only us, the forces of spatial force, but it is also the capacities of other services that are the posture to respond to this. And the truth is that we even have partners, other nations, other agencies, Intel agencies, who have now applied against some of these launches to be determined to understand, have we planned correctly? Do we not have?

And then, what are our branch plans in case he behaves in a way that we have not planned? How will we react there? What do we need for task, posture, notification, etc. To then obtain observations, find, repair, follow, target? We therefore carry out the preponderance of what we call the chain of death, for what we consider as a non-cooperative launch, in the hope that it behaves peacefully but providing that it will behave in a way that is not professional or hostile … We have several cat rooms with several classifications which communicate in terms of “straight, is the launch expected, or does it do it?

Now, we have even owed the loyalty of what forces on the ground or on the ocean may not have any capacity … Due to maneuvers or protective measures that the American spatial force must take in order to deviate from its mission because of this behavior. The conversation, the way it was five years ago and the way it is today, is very, very different in terms of launch, because now this launch, in many cases, presents a risk to the joint force.