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News | April 9, 2024

USSPACECOM and Uruguayan Air Force Sign Space Situational Awareness Information Sharing Agreement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                           April 9, 2024                                       Release No. 2024-04-09-02
 
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – U.S. Space Command and the Uruguayan Air Force signed a Space Situational Awareness information sharing agreement, Apr. 9, 2024.
 
U.S. Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, USSPACECOM commander, and Gen. Luis H. De León Pepelescov, Chief of the Uruguayan Air Force, signed the agreement at Space Symposium 39 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
 
USSPACECOM’s Space Situational Awareness information sharing program enhances the safety, stability, security, and sustainability of spaceflight for all.
 
USSPACECOM holds more than 185 Space Situational Awareness information sharing agreements with partners from the commercial sector, academia, as well as foreign and intergovernmental organizations.
 
Media queries should be sent to U.S. Space Command Public Affairs Office at 719-554-3478 or USSPACECOM.pa.workflow@us.af.mil.
 

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