Defense Department’s new tool to investigate on-orbit anomalies

Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. NEW ORLEANS – Defense Department satellite operators will soon have a new tool to determine whether space weather was the likely cause of an on-orbit anomaly. Space Weather Analysis and Forecast System (SWAFS) 2.0, a cloud-based platform, will be released for operational use in March or April, U.S. Air Force Col. Todd Blum, chief of the U.S. Space Force Environmental Monitoring Operations Branch, said Jan. 13 at the American Meteorological Society annual…

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