DIU Initiates INDUS-X Satellite-Tracking Challenge

The Defense Innovation Unit has announced the opening of the Dual Horizons: U.S.-India Satellite Tracking Challenge, aimed to enhance capabilities to detect satellite movements in contested environments in low Earth orbit. DIU said Thursday the bilateral challenge was launched in partnership with the U.S. Space Forces-Indo-Pacific, or USSPACEFOR-INDOPAC, the Space Domain Awareness Tools, Applications, & Processing Lab, or SDA TAP Lab, and India’s Innovations for Defence Excellence, or iDEX. The purpose of the challenge is to develop technologies that can track satellites trying to avoid detection in near real-time over the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The India-U.S. Defense Acceleration Ecosystem, or INDUS-X,The post DIU Initiates INDUS-X Satellite-Tracking Challenge first appeared on Executive Gov.