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You have to give SpaceX props with respect to their space-based activities over the years. They started eight years ago providing launch services for government national security payloads.
SpaceX is now under contract to develop and deploy a large robust/resilient distributed constellation of hundreds of laser-networked reconnaissance (radar and imagery) satellites in low Earth orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. That's quite a remarkable achievement. And is likely disturbing to the traditional go-to defense satellite manufacturers (Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Boeing) who've been in that business for decades.
As an aside, I have a feeling that recent news of Russia developing an anti-satellite system employing a nuclear weapon could be in response to the above.
SpaceX is now under contract to develop and deploy a large robust/resilient distributed constellation of hundreds of laser-networked reconnaissance (radar and imagery) satellites in low Earth orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. That's quite a remarkable achievement. And is likely disturbing to the traditional go-to defense satellite manufacturers (Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Boeing) who've been in that business for decades.
As an aside, I have a feeling that recent news of Russia developing an anti-satellite system employing a nuclear weapon could be in response to the above.
If SpaceX's Secret Constellation Is What We Think It Is, It's Game Changing (Updated)
A constellation of hundreds of sensor-equipped satellites would offer unprecedented strategic and tactical surveillance around the globe.
www.twz.com