The Space Development Agency and its industry partners are closer to creating interoperable laser communications networks on orbit, experts said recently.
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Optical comms networks offer some advantages over RF networks, experts say.
Discussions about the eventual phaseout of Link 16 tactical data links are ongoing as the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency works to build out a network for optical communications, according to a senior official involved in the effort.
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Polish researchers have finally told the world where Russia is wreaking havoc in the skies and at sea in the Baltic region. Using a network of monitoring stations, they have tracked down the locations of satellite navigation jamming (GNSS) and pointed the finger at Kaliningrad and the St Petersburg area. The resourceful military uses both signal jamming and spoofing, a more sophisticated technique of coordinate spoofing that can make aircraft or ships think they are in a different location on the map altogether.
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Under this plan, SpaceX’s satellites would play a big role in the Space Force’s kill chain.
The Trump administration plans to cancel a fleet of orbiting data relay satellites managed by the Space Development Agency and replace it with a secretive network that, so far, relies primarily on SpaceX’s Starlink Internet constellation, according to budget documents.
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A top Space Force general said Tuesday that commercial systems have observed Chinese satellites rehearsing “dogfighting” maneuvers in low Earth orbit — the U.S. adversary’s latest show of tactical and technological advancement in space capabilities.
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