The experimental EWS cubesat will operate in Earth orbit for a year.
"If successful, this will provide an innovative option to deliver space-based environmental monitoring data to the warfighter at an operationally relevant speed," Lt. Col. Joe Maguadog, EWS Materiel Leader and Program Manager, said in a Space Force statement.
"This demonstration will inform our transition toward a more affordable, scalable and resilient EO/IR weather constellation," he added.The U.S. Space Force's EWS experimental weather satellite launched on SpaceX's Transporter-6 mission on Jan. 3, 2022. EWS and the philosophy behind it are part of a broader shift that the U.S. military is making with its space assets.that can be built and launched quickly. Reconnaissance and communications systems that rely on such spacecraft are harder for an adversary to degrade than traditional space networks, which tend to employ a handful of highly capable but expensive and complex spacecraft that take years to develop.
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