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5G from Space Offers Potential Benefits for U.S. Forces, But Spectrum Access and Cybersecurity Represent Challenges

5G from Space Offers Potential Benefits for U.S. Forces, But Spectrum Access and Cybersecurity Represent Challenges
Thales Alenia Space is building the Intelsat 41 and Intelsat 44 software-defined satellites for a planned Intelsat 5G communications network (Artistic rendering by Thales Alenia Space)

On March 5, the New York Times quoted Lt. Yevgeny Yarantsev, a Ukrainian officer leading his troops in Kyiv against Russian forces. Yarantsev told the Times that his soldiers "were more comfortable being able to garrison in buildings than in fields or forests." “I’ve noticed something about war,” he said, according to the Times. “Soldiers want to be somewhere where cell phones work and where there is internet.” A "5G in Space" panel at the Satellite 2022 conference in Washington,…

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