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The DoD seems well on its way towards having two more such networks (augmenting the one it already has in existence), without the involvement of SpaceX at all:
by 7e 4y ago
The DoD seems well on its way towards having two more such networks (augmenting the one it already has in existence), without the involvement of SpaceX at all: https://spacenews.com/u-s-to-ramp-up-spending-on-classified-communications-satellites/ https://spacenews.com/u-s-to-ramp-up-spending-on-classified-.... Maybe this program was spun up in an attempt to grab those sweet government dollars in 2025.
- rektide 4y agoThay seemed to mainly cover specific efforts & contracts. All Space Force related. Personally I feel like this is over narrow. They seem likenthey are just trying to make am acquisition, spend money to have some shit to be in control of. I feel like DARPA has a much broader & more long-term real effort underway, not about hardware to buy but about how hardware communicates, networks, what things do. Space Based Adaptive Communication Networks (Space BACN) seems to be the real effort afoot right now, IMO, to more broadly define how communication works in space. There's, as I understand, some fairly popular command & control buses for satellites. But this Space BACN seems like a much broader networking initiative, that this Starlink project seems like a proprietary competitor to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33164023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33307864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33307864