"Operational acceptance of ATLAS delivers the "the key capabilities [needed] to not be reliant on the SPADOC system," Shannon Pallone, program executive officer of Battle Management, Command, Control, Communications, and Space Intelligence (BMC3I) at the service's primary acquisition unit, Space Systems Command, told Breaking Defense on Sept. 16. ATLAS's official greenlight comes after a nearly year-long trial period for the software at Space Operations Command's Mission Delta 2, headquartered at Vandenberg SFB, Calif."
"Pallone, speaking in an exclusive interview during the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance conference in Hawaii, explained that since the trial began delta operators successfully have been using the system to create actual tracking data for space objects. "[O]n the ops floor, it's generating a catalog - it's publishing data to Space-track.org They're using that as a primary system," she said."
Space Force accepted ATLAS as operational, enabling retirement of the 1980s-era SPADOC system used for tracking satellites, spacecraft, and space debris. The acceptance followed a nearly year-long trial at Space Operations Command's Mission Delta 2 at Vandenberg SFB, where operators used ATLAS to generate catalogs and publish tracking data to Space-track.org as a primary system. ATLAS began in 2018, contracted to L3Harris, as part of broader efforts to replace the flawed Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) Mission System (JMS) that started in 2009. Acceptance delivers key capabilities to avoid reliance on SPADOC.
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