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U.S. Space Force Plans to Buy Communications Data from Luxembourg’s MEO Constellation Next Year

U.S. Space Force Plans to Buy Communications Data from Luxembourg’s MEO Constellation Next Year
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. on April 28 carrying the third and fourth SES O3b mPOWER satellites (Photo on SES Website)

Next year, the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) plans to buy military satellite communications (SATCOM) data from Luxembourg's Medium Earth Orbit Global Services (MGS) program, which has thus far deployed four O3b mPOWER satellites by Luxembourg-based SES S.A. "The United States is going to buy the SATCOM service from Luxembourg," Barbara Baker, SSC's deputy program executive officer for military communications and Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT), told a Space Force Association virtual audience on Sept. 21. "That's an…

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