By Dave Ahearn DARPA last week awarded Boeing [BA], Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Orbital Sciences [ORB] multi-million-dollar contracts to design and build what is essentially one satellite divided into multiple parts, linked wirelessly. Those contracts are for the first, one-year phase of a four-phase effort. Why split up what ordinarily would be a single satellite into several separate parts? Because, if one of those parts is damaged deliberately by an anti-satellite weapon or accidentally by space debris,…
Major Defense Companies Get DARPA Contracts For Mini-Satellites
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