Space domain awareness (SDA) space mission includes which capability?

• A. Predictive knowledge
• B. Characterization of space objects
• C. Space surveillance
• D. Analysis of space domain

Answer: (C)

Space domain awareness is about building a clear, timely picture of what’s in space by continuously observing, detecting, and tracking objects to know their locations and motions. The main capability here is space surveillance—the ongoing monitoring and tracking of objects in orbit to maintain an up-to-date catalog and to watch for potential conjunctions or debris movements. Other options touch on related ideas, but they’re not the primary function: predicting future states is about forecasting, which complements surveillance but isn’t the core ongoing activity; characterizing space objects deals with identifying physical properties rather than tracking; and analyzing the space domain is a broad activity that sits over the data rather than describing a specific operational capability.