Saw this in the NewSpace Sadler Report today: During the outbrief to the Senate Armed Services Committee by the Chair (The Honorable Jane M. Harman) and Vice Chair (The Honorable Eric S. Edelman) Representative Harman was quoted
“We are more dependent on space as a country and more vulnerable in space because of that dependency than any other country. And shoring up space, which is one of the threats we addressed, is absolutely crucial. it's not just military space, but commercial space. A lot of how you talked about communication, a lot of how we communicate is through commercial space. And think how inconvenience the public would be if all of a sudden their little devices, which we're all dependent on, didn't work."
One way to defend those assets would be to give them the ability to move away from the threat. Adding refueling would allow defensive maneuver without reducing on orbit life. We have the technology to do this now.
Why don't we?
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