What Happened
Bilateral Partnership Bolsters Indo-Pacific Space Domain Awareness
The US Space Force and Japan have successfully launched a sensor to bolster space surveillance above the Indo-Pacific. The sensor, hosted on Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7, will deliver near-real-time data to the Space Surveillance Network, improving the US Space Force’s understanding of activities within geosynchronous orbit. This bilateral effort is the second and final sensor in the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System-Hosted Payload program, a national security space partnership between the US and Japan. The launch was reported by an unknown source.