{"id":25726,"date":"2021-07-08T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/07\/08\/space-force-opens-up-new-operations-center-to-improve-war-fighting-capabilities\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:57:53","slug":"space-force-opens-up-new-operations-center-to-improve-war-fighting-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2021\/07\/08\/space-force-opens-up-new-operations-center-to-improve-war-fighting-capabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force opens facility to improve war-fighting capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force opened a new satellite operations center July 7 at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico designed to advance the still nascent service\u2019s space war-fighting capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rendezvous and Proximity (REPR) Satellite Operations Center was established by the Space and Missile Systems Center\u2019s Innovation and Prototyping Directorate as a new workspace to drive on-orbit experimentation and demonstrations with prototype satellites and payloads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe REPR Satellite Operations Center allows us to carry out on-orbit experiments and prototyping efforts, develop innovative concepts of operation, and demonstrate game-changing technology for the United States Space Force and our mission partners,\u201d said head of the directorate, Col. 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In November, AFRL opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2020\/11\/04\/air-force-research-laboratory-open-new-space-lab\/\">the Deployable Structures Laboratory<\/a>, a $4 million building dedicated to developing deployable space structures. A few months later, AFRL began construction on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2021\/03\/18\/air-force-begins-construction-of-new-space-environment-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\">$3.5 million Skywave Technology Laboratory<\/a>, which will house its space environment research. 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