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Tango0119 Feb 2021 9:45 p.m. PST

…. If They Work

"Satellites that use lasers to exchange data promise to make military communications faster and harder to intercept — if the Pentagon can figure out how to make them work.

With plans to launch a 150-satellite constellation into low-earth orbit by September 2024, the two-year-old Space Development Agency is on a deadline. It has already released a communications standard to be used by four companies supplying the laser gear for a four-satellite experiment called tranche zero, agency director Derek Tournear said Tuesday at a Space Foundation event. And by August, Tournear expects to release a request for proposals that will spell out key details for the "more robust" standard needed for the 150-satellite tranche one…"
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witteridderludo20 Feb 2021 2:09 a.m. PST

Just ask Elon, he deployed his first laser linked Starlinks a week or two ago…

Tango0120 Feb 2021 11:53 a.m. PST

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