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Space

DoD Looks to Lower Orbit Satellites to Boost Innovation

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, July 20th, 2023

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DoD Looks to Lower Orbit Satellites to Boost Innovation

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Reducing the vulnerability of U.S. satellites and ensuring military forces are able to operate without mission degradation is a continuous task and one that may gain insights from the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency's (SDA) ongoing effort to develop a "resilient missile warning/missile tracking" architecture in low Earth orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth orbit (MEO), a top Pentagon space official said on July 19. "Resilience is never complete," John Plumb, the assistant secretary of defense for space policy, told…

Congress

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Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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