The new programme will interoperate with and eventually replace the US Space Force’s advanced extremely high-frequency system.
US Space Force
The latest satellite increases the number of secure military code-enabled satellites in GPS Constellation to 22.
This is now the second SpaceX launch to be delayed by the coronavirus pandemic after the Argentinian space agency (CONAE) postponed its SAOCOM 1B Earth...
The payloads hope to ensure adaptive, anti-jamming communications channels are available to allied forces in a contested environment.