A spokesperson for Space System Command’s Space Safari office told Breaking Defense that the Victus Sol launch date, payload type, capability requirements and mission objective “will not be disclosed at this time in accordance with mission requirements.”
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The language used by MoD to describe the strategy’s motivations echo those long used by the US Defense Department — for example, citing the fact that space is “increasingly competitive and contested” putting national space systems at risk.
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“I think now’s the time where we need to figure out what is tactically responsive space, and I don’t think there’s a clear consensus,” said Kurt Eberly, who directs Northrop Grumman’s space launch vehicles business unit.
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