The Space Force will get a space simulation platform from Slingshot Aerospace that will be used to educate advanced topics.
Slingshot Aerospace stated today that it is working on a digital duplicate of space for the United States. As part of a new $25 million contract, the Space Force will be able to swiftly offer training and wargaming capabilities. The company’s Digital Space Twin model mimics the space environment and displays real-time maps of on-orbit objects and space weather. Slingshot has been developing the tool as a commercial product for the last two years and will adapt it for Space Force missions under the new contract to “improve their capacity to monitor and react to present and future threats,” according to a news statement issued by the company on Thursday. Before completing the government product, the corporation intends to release the commercial version.
