COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command facilitated a multilateral engagement with defense space leaders from Angola, Kenya, and Nigeria on April 10 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The discussion centered around exploring potential Space Situational Awareness and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) data sharing opportunities between the U.S. and each respective nation.
Col. Raj Agrawal, commander of Mission Delta 2, the Space Force’s SDA Delta, gave a brief during the engagement. During the brief he was able to discuss the vital role SDA plays in international security, and how the U.S. has and will continue to seek out mutually beneficial partnerships with like-minded nations in space. He also socialized U.S. Space Force-hosted foundational space training courses available to partner nation representatives, and identified the possibility of participation from each attending nation in U.S.-led multilateral SDA-focused exercises like Global Sentinel.
Each attending nation also had the opportunity to share the status of their own sovereign space programs. At the end of the meeting, senior leaders from all four nations expressed positive sentiment and gratitude for an insightful engagement.