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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A person looks at a starry night sky while standing by a domed building illuminated by purple light.

Under the Milky Way

Aaron Pino looks out at the Milky Way at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., Aug. 26, 2022. Pino is a member of the 15th Space Surveillance Squadron, Detachment 1 operations team, which is responsible for 5,000 to 13,000 daily space object observations that provide time, elevation and trajectory data to the Space Surveillance Network.

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