The Pentagon's No. 2 military official today issued a stinging rebuke of Defense Department deliberations over developing a new satellite urgently needed to track -- among other things -- adversary hypersonic weapons. Instead of continued analysis of the best potential mix of orbits for the Space Sensor Layer, an interim experimental capability should immediately be put up to inform the objective design, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten said Jan. 17 during remarks at the...
