Pentagon Launches Smaller Satellites to Counter Enemy Anti-Satellite Attacks
Warrior Maven
Nov 5, 2020
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by Kris Osborn - Warrior Maven
Tiny satellites are much harder to detect and shoot down. They are also much more effective at both redundancy and disaggregation strategies during a space war, particularly if it operated with a technical effectiveness equivalent to a larger system.
As a result, small satellites are increasingly being enlisted by military forces to deliver new capabilities across the battlefield. A new collaborative small sat mission is on the verge of doing just that – as the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) unit readies to test a proven satellite bus as host of its new 3U CubeSat Gunsmoke-J technology initiative fostering innovations for tactical ground
forces.
TriSept, a leading launch integration and mission management provider, has signed a launch services contract with the SMDC to broker and integrate the milestone CubeSat technology demonstration mission scheduled to launch aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle early next year.
https://defensemaven.io/warriormaven/future-weapons/pentagon-launches-smaller-satellites-to-counter-enemy-anti-satellite-attacks-NN8KmTGlD0abvYG8pCt4tA
