The challenge of refueling military satellites

Proliferated Military Satellite Swarm

The sensing half of the architecture exists because of a specific problem, and understanding it…

The connections between these satellites are optical: laser links from one spacecraft to another…

The response is not to protect the satellites.

An adversary fires an anti-satellite weapon and destroys an American satellite.

Space domain awareness means knowing what is in orbit and what it is doing.

Imagine chasing another satellite. Your instinct is to speed up toward it.

Everything a spacecraft does is paid for out of a single account, and once you understand it…