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DIU is seeking companies with the "capability for bulk storage of liquid (>5,000 kg) and gaseous propellants on orbit," including hydrazine, liquid oxygen and others.
The bottom line, according to DIA is that space "is being increasingly militarized" around the globe, and the threats to US military and commercial space activities continue to grow, from ground-based ASAT tests, to ISR fleets, to deep space hiding places.
"We know that the way of warfare has changed, and we're going to be having difficulties with jamming, and having difficulties getting our position navigation and timing signals to our warfighters," said AFRL Director Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle.
Space Force hopes to finally be able to ditch this year its "old clunker" SPADOC computer system for managing space surveillance data.
Space Force budget gets a big boost to $24.5B in FY23, focus on resilience The FY23 request is $7 billion more than the $17.4 billion the service asked for...