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Low Earth Orbit Communications Services ‘Not a Panacea’ for DoD, Hughes Official Says

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Low Earth Orbit Communications Services ‘Not a Panacea’ for DoD, Hughes Official Says
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The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) is pursuing the Transport Layer of proliferated low Earth orbit satellites to reduce satellite data transmission times to military forces. Delays of 30 minutes to an hour and a half have occurred in radio frequency data exchange among satellites, as they must wait until they pass over a fixed ground station to downlink data. SDA is moving toward intersatellite optical links, such as those carried by SpaceX's Starlink satellites, to create an…

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