DARPA Reduces Risk Ahead Of Blackjack LEO Constellation Demo

satellite constellation
DARPA’s Blackjack will proliferate military payloads across a constellation of commercial satellite buses.
Credit: DARPA
DARPA plans to launch a series of risk-reduction satellites this year in an effort to ensure the success of its Blackjack program to tap into the commercial space market and demonstrate that low-Earth- orbit (LEO) constellations can perform military missions as effectively as geosynchronous...
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