Liftoff is scheduled for 8:51 a.m. ET on Saturday (Sept. 9).
in the same amount of time it takes our planet to complete one rotation. That means they"hover" over the same patch of ground, making GEO a population destination for telecommunications and Earth-observation craft.
We don't know how many satellites Silent Barker will loft, or what exactly they will do. But one of their mission objectives is to"deter aggression," Space Force officials have said. "A huge element of deterrence is the ability for the adversary to know what we can and cannot see," Space Force Lt. General Michael Guetlein, commander of Space Systems Command, said in a teleconference with reporters on Aug. 28."So we actually want our competitors to know that we have eyes in GEO and that we can see what's happening in GEO."
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