{"id":127854,"date":"2021-09-19T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/space-force-grappling-with-aging-infrastructure-used-to-operate-satellites"},"modified":"2021-09-19T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T19:24:18","slug":"space-force-grappling-with-aging-infrastructure-used-to-operate-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/space-force-grappling-with-aging-infrastructure-used-to-operate-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Space Force grappling with aging infrastructure used to operate satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-grappling-with-aging-infrastructure-used-to-operate-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The ground stations and tracking antennas the U.S. military relies on to communicate with its satellites \u2014 known as the Satellite Control Network, or SCN \u2014 are decades old and short of the capacity needed to keep up with the projected growth in space activities.<\/p>\n<p>There are seven SCN sites located in the United States and around the world. About 15 large dish antennas at these sites command more than 190 military and government satellites in multiple orbits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly the Satellite Control Network is a venerable system that\u2019s been around for a long time. So we have multiple efforts ongoing to ensure that it\u2019s ready for the future that we now find ourselves in,\u201d Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of the U.S. Space Operations Command, said last month at the 36th Space Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The ground stations and tracking antennas the U.S. military relies on to communicate with its satellites \u2014 known as the Satellite Control Network, or SCN \u2014 are decades old and short of the capacity needed to keep up with the projected growth in space activities. There are seven SCN sites located in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127854","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=127854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}