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LOUIS \u2014 Maxar Technologies, which provides satellite imagery to the Defense Department and intelligence community, is considering how its Earth-facing spacecraft sensors could serve a dual-purpose in observing objects and activity in orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is one of three firms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2022\/05\/25\/national-reconnaissance-office-expands-use-of-commercial-satellite-imagery\/\" target=\"_blank\">on contract with the National Reconnaissance Office<\/a>, the agency that develops and operates spy satellites, to provide imagery over the next 10 years through its Electro-Optical Commercial layer program, or EOCL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maxar\u2019s contract, awarded in 2022 and valued at more than $3 billion, is largely focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/02\/08\/maxar-wins-contract-to-provide-satellite-imagery-to-us-allies\/\" target=\"_blank\">providing imagery of the Earth<\/a> but it includes a provision to experiment with using its satellites to provide \u201cnon-Earth\u201d data, which includes high-resolution imagery of the space environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony Frazier, Maxar\u2019s executive vice president and general manager for public sector Earth intelligence, said the company is doing \u201ca limited collection\u201d of this type of imagery, and is discussing with the Pentagon how its satellites could be used for this mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPart of what we\u2019re doing is we\u2019re educating them on that and making sure they\u2019re taking full advantage of that investment, but then also making them aware of additional capabilities that we\u2019re adding that currently aren\u2019t supported through the program,\u201d Frazier told C4ISRNET in a May 23 interview at the GEOINT Conference in St. Louis. \u201cAn example that has been super interesting and has kind of led to new conversations with the Department of Defense is around what we\u2019re doing with non-Earth imaging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frazier characterized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2022\/12\/16\/space-imaging-company-maxar-agrees-to-64-billion-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maxar\u2019s work in this area<\/a> as being in the \u201cstudy and evaluation phase,\u201d adding that it could inform future requirements. He said that while Maxar builds its satellites \u201cwith a sense of enduring missions in mind,\u201d it also considered the possibility that they could be used in new ways, especially as the government looks to protect satellites from new threats in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a way that we can actually get more utility out of the constellation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improving domain awareness<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Satellites that observe activity in orbit contribute to what DoD calls space domain awareness. The mission is a high priority for U.S. Space Command and the Space Force as they grow increasingly concerned about congestion and debris in low Earth orbit, located about 1,200 miles above the planet, and aggression from adversaries like Russia and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space Force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/05\/18\/space-force-may-seek-new-bidders-for-future-deep-space-radars\/\" target=\"_blank\">uses a mix of ground-based<\/a> and in-space sensors to conduct the space domain awareness mission. 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