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DARPA just quietly asked industry how to rebuild a destroyed satellite fleet in hours — and the request reveals what the Pentagon now assumes about the first day of a war with China
The Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm wants industry to figure out how to rebuild a shot-up satellite constellation in hours, not years. DARPA released a request for information asking companies to pitch concepts for restoring critical orbital services after an attack. The solicitation, posted by DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office, asks for technical ideas spanning modular spacecraft, software-defined satellites, rapid manufacturing, on-orbit as…
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