SDA taps AST SpaceMobile to demo commercial satellite links to military radios
The $30M award is the first under SDA's Hybrid Acquisition for proliferated Low-earth Orbit (HALO) program.
The $30M award is the first under SDA's Hybrid Acquisition for proliferated Low-earth Orbit (HALO) program.
The goal of the collaborative effort was to show that commercial data can help close the time lag between when a satellite is released into orbit from a rocket to when the Space Force can reliably track it and put the trajectory coordinates into the military's catalog of space objects, said Kayhan CEO Siamak Hesar..
Meanwhile, the company said it has no intentions of dropping its lawsuit against the federal government over L-band spectrum use.