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HSA is aimed at creating a “hack-proof” internet in space comprising commercial and government SATCOM birds to underpin the Defense Department’s Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control concept to link sensors and shooters in rea…
Some decision-making authorities, previously closely held by the president or secretary of defense, have been delegated to US SPACECOM, according to sources, but military space leaders want more freedom to act.
There is “no point in writing papers for three years, developing the satellite for five years, launching old stuff into the orbit, which would stay there for another 10 years,” said Maj. Gen. Michael Traut, Commander of German Space Command
Space RCO Director Kelly Hammett envisions that his shop will feed tech into the Space Force’s new effort to contract commercial firms to replace the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites for monitoring the heavens.
While not necessarily a near-term possibility, Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen said the Space Force is “looking at increasing the resiliency, increasing the ways that we have to get assured access to space, that’s where the these initial dis…
The smaller SBI price tag enabled by the drop in launch costs could be offset by the need for a much larger number of satellites to fulfil Trump’s Golden Dome plan, the Congressional Budget Office study caveats.
Gainey noted that the MOS 40D mission area will include operating the service’s expanding ground-based electronic warfare arsenal for disrupting adversary space and counterspace systems.
“This will be a next-generation capability being introduced by Ursa Major for hypersonic technology,” Ursa Major CEO Dan Jablonsky told Breaking Defense.
The FCC’s concerns echo those from DoD and the Space Force about the ease of GPS jamming — and the rapid rise in deliberate jamming by governments and militaries in hot spots around the world such as Syria, Ukraine and the Red Sea.
There are a lot of hopes within DoD and the Space Force for Project Kuiper’s success, with officials seeing the constellation as offering diversity beyond Starlink in the supplier base for so-called proliferated LEO services.