The Air Force Research Laboratory is working on a new technology demonstration that would see a satellite collect solar power on orbit and then beam that energy down to earth.
Since announcing their desire to build the world's first fully digital service, Space Force officials are fleshing out how that will impact everything from force design to requirements to engineering.
The unclassified report finds that technological and staffing challenges pose a high risk of delays for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program.
The satellites will form a key part of the agency's National Defense Space Architecture, a proliferated constellation to be made up of hundreds of satellites.
While the UK is building up its own space domain awareness tools, said Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey, the military must first utilize and fuse existing sensor data.
