Photo by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 03.22.2021
Gunsmoke-J, a U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and Assured Position Navigation and Timing/Space Cross Functional Team joint capability technology demonstration satellite, launches into orbit, March 22. Gunsmoke-J’s experiments will show how its sensors can provide critical data and information key in multi-domain operations. (U.S. Army photo)...
Photo by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 06.28.2018
1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade Soldiers from Colorado Springs, Colorado, are training to operate the Warfighter Assisting Low Earth Orbit Tracker, or WALT, antenna and Kestrel Eye Ground Station at the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command headquarters. The training is allowing the Soldiers to support overhead satellite passes for the Kestrel Eye......
Photo by Jason Cutshaw | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 04.27.2018
Members of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Technical Center watch as Kestrel Eye is able to take its first images from space April 28. Kestrel Eye is a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite prototype designed to provide near real-time images to the tactical-level ground Soldier in the field, rapidly and inexpensively. (Photo by Jason B. Cutshaw)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center | 01.01.2018
The Kestrel Eye is a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite prototype designed to provide near-real-time images to the tactical-level ground Soldier. Kestrel Eye was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as a payload aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 14, 2017, as part of the ISS cargo resupply mission. The system was subsequently deployed......
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Photo by Carrie Campbell | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 10.24.2017
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command Technical Center received its first images from Kestrel Eye, a small, low-cost, visible-imagery satellite prototype designed to provide near real-time images to the tactical-level ground Soldier, in April 2018. Kestrel Eye was launched into space August 2017 and deployed from the International Space Station October 2017....
Photo by Carrie Campbell | U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command | 10.24.2017
Kestrel Eye, a science and technology demonstration, provided the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command vital data and crucial lessons learned for supporting future Army small satellite programs. (NASA photo)...
