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Monitoring the heavens: Space Force has 1,000 'priority targets,' 600 sensors


Besides tracking adversary satellites, said Maj. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, deputy chief of space operations for intelligence, "sometimes I want to be looking at my own object to see if anything's going on, right?"

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