Space Force selects Texas as third site of deep-space radar network

Artist concept of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 2. Credit: Northrop Grumman

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has selected Lake Kickapoo, Texas, as the preferred location for the third and final site of a global radar network being built with Australia and the United Kingdom to monitor satellites and other objects in deep space.

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