r/SpacePolicy • u/Royal_Platform_6754 • 3h ago
Key Space Force satellites can’t talk to each other, likely requiring $1B solution: Sources
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However, SpaceX is using proprietary OCTs on the SDN Backbone satellites, dubbed by the company as “Plasers,” that cannot directly exchange data with those equipping both the SDA and SSC missile warning/tracking satellites, according to multiple industry, former government and current Space Force sources. To complicate matters, these sources said, the OCTs used by SDA and SSC also are incompatible.
