{"id":121740,"date":"2021-04-19T20:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/darpa-nuke-sat-to-target-cislunar-monitoring-mission"},"modified":"2021-04-19T20:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T03:22:19","slug":"darpa-nuke-sat-to-target-cislunar-monitoring-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/darpa-nuke-sat-to-target-cislunar-monitoring-mission","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Nuke Sat To Target Cislunar Monitoring Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-nuke-sat-to-target-cislunar-monitoring-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beyond Cislunar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, AFRL last Thursday held a classified stakeholder meeting to discuss research and development needed to underpin future military operations beyond the traditional near-Earth orbits used today, according to DoD officials. Neither AFRL nor Space Command would provide any details whatsoever about the meeting \u2014 not even a list of participants.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Kirkpatrick, who represents the DNI at Space Command\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/joint-task-force-space-defense\/\">Joint Task Force-Space Defense (JTF-SD),<\/a> said last Tuesday the \u201csummit\u201d was focused not just on R&amp;D needed to counter potential adversary activities in cislunar space, but also \u201call around the sphere of the Earth, not necessarily in the direction of the Moon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Cislunar Indeed, AFRL last Thursday held a classified stakeholder meeting to discuss research and development needed to underpin future military operations beyond the traditional near-Earth orbits used today, according to DoD officials. Neither AFRL nor Space Command would provide any details whatsoever about the meeting \u2014 not even a list of participants. Sean Kirkpatrick, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}