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Contested, degraded and operational imminent environment. and that is only going to become more limited in the future. >> the challenge is what to do when the alert is sounded. unlike its adversaries, the u.s. has not weaponized space. so these airmen and women may call themselves space warriors, but for now they are unarmed, making their squadron headquarters an observation post with very accurate clocks to set your watch. >> these satellites were built 15 years ago and launched during an era when space was a benign environment. there was no threat. can you imagine building a refueler aircraf...

Grabbing and releasing its smaller partner, experimenting with a dangerous new space weapons capability. china admits the satellite has a robotic arm, but claims it was launched purely to observe space debris. graziani and others, however see the potential for a far more sinister use. >> why would you grapple another satellite? >> you could grab ahold on a satellite and maneuver it out of its mission. so it could basically take it offline. >> so you could kidnap another satellite? >> essentially. >> kidnapper satellites, kamikaze satellites, anti-satellite missiles. multiple weapons with one t...

It's not rolled out everywhere, and it doesn't work in areas that can't see ground infrastructure, therefore. if you have service and tracking that you need to occur over an ocean or in deep canyons in places like alaska and so forth. you have to have an augmented system. the augmented system goes over global star, and the result is, you can continuously track one second at a time for continuously across any trip and know exactly where an airplane is, that is invaluable, and in the case of 370, it would have told us whether the plane turned. whether the plane continued straight, and when it st...

Weeks, everybody calls with an example of saying, if i can track my iphone, why can't they find this plane? i said the other day, i flu home on jet blue across the country a couple days ago, watching cnn. if i can watch cnn in realtime, why can't we find the plane? you think you have a solution, what is it? >> the technology does exist and there's a next gen system that the faa is mandating which has a component called adsb. it allows you to track aircraft from a signal that is emitted from the belly of each airplane to ground infrastructure, the challenge with adsb is that a it's not rolled o...

During the last few years. it's been tough times at global star, that's over, a new constellation has been repopulated. and we are happy to be back offering services. >> so here's the question that i ask, is the market going to sort this out? we are all so frustrated, and i have to tell you, on my radio program for the last three weeks, everybody calls with an example of saying, if i can track my iphone, why can't they find this plane? i said the other day, i flu home on jet blue across the country a couple days ago, watching cnn. if i can watch cnn in realtime, why can't we find the plane? yo...