The sixth ABMS onramp “was going to be in partnership with Australia, and allies and partners, in the Pacific Rim,” Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said, but “just due to the budget constraints, we had to pull the plug on that.”
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“We’ll have communications capability up there within the next year or so,” said NORTHCOM commander Gen. Glen VanHerck.
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“We’re not going to be able to defend every acre of North America,” Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), says bluntly.
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“Information gathered up to and through Tracking Layer Tranche 0 will help inform decisions about future tranches, including how many and which types of sensors should be flown to provide the warfighter a complete advanced missile threat solution,” SDA spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea says.
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CBO estimates that developing F-35-launched boost-phase interceptors to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles would cost $25 billion to $40 billion to develop, with an additional $10 billion to $20 billion a year to operate.
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“The fiction that SDA and SMC are working together is just that,” said a former senior DoD space official. “You know, they make nicey-nicey, but, the reality is that they’re not working together.”
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The Space Prime effort could support game-changing “space transport and logistics” capabilities, says Col. Eric Felt, head of AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate.
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A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“When you can launch an austere airbase in a space capsule, that’s frickin’ awesome,” says AF acquisition head Will Roper about the idea of suborbital transport spacecraft.
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“I don’t think we’re at the position to know both what the demand is, but also where industry is going, what’s the viable way to consider other orbits if we were asked to do,” says Col. Robert Bongiovi, director of SMC’s Space Vehicles Directorate.
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China has launched 29 satellites through Sept. 30, compared 27 launched by the US. The US has far more satellites already in space.
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SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell said SpaceX would, “where it makes sense,” help Microsoft Azure Space sell its data services to current and future customers.
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Major SATCOM providers — such as Hughes (a subsidiary of SATCOM giant Echostar), Viasat, Intelsat, Inmarsat, SES and Eutelsat — argue that this would not only ease problems with service gaps that have long plagued troops in the field, but also be cheaper and allow speedier integration of new technology.
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“”Where will the money for this program come from, and will it means less money for the Space Force and all the existing space programs of record?” asks Secure World Foundation’s Brian Weeden.
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Point-to-point space transport is “a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint,” Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.
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