Korea-US Joint Space Situational Awareness Exercise Conducted

[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] The military authorities of South Korea and the United States conducted a joint space situational awareness exercise on the U.S. mainland.

On the 4th, the Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that the combined civil-military team from South Korea participated in the international space situational awareness joint exercise "Global Sentinel 2022," hosted by the United States, enhancing their space operation capabilities.

This exercise took place over ten days starting from the 25th of last month at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The combined civil-military team consisted of one member from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two from the Air Force, and one from the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. The Global Sentinel joint exercise, led by the U.S. Space Force since 2014, is a multinational exercise in which South Korea has participated since 2017. This year, about 150 personnel from 25 countries including South Korea, the United States, and Australia took part.

The participating countries focused on mastering procedures such as setting up hypothetical space scenarios, predicting potential satellite collisions, performing avoidance maneuvers, analyzing the timing and location of space object reentries, and standardizing surveillance information data for sharing international space situational awareness.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff evaluated that the exercise yielded achievements including ▲ acquisition of advanced space situational awareness know-how from leading space nations and enhancement of joint cooperative response capabilities ▲ identification of improvements and developments in the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) field ▲ cultivation of civil-military joint space situational awareness cooperation capabilities.

In the next exercise, the military plans to expand the scope of participation to strengthen joint operations in the space domain.

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