[Starlink] The DoD "Transport Layer"

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

It looks like an "internet" in space is shaping up. In a much earlier
thread on this list, there was a presentation about the moon<->earth
architectures and standards being sorted out. It was an awful looking
amalgam of every technology we have available today from lte to wifi
to the bundle protocol and everything in between. I can't find the
site that pointed at the specs now (?)

Right now it's reminding me of the bad ole days, where you'd find me on

..leo!LunarGW!rhysling_crater!dtaht.

And then there's this that went by yesterday:

"DIU’s hybrid space architecture would use commercial communication
systems as transport pipes to move data collected by imaging
satellites and deliver it quickly to government users. The concept
assumes that commercial satellites will talk to each other via
interoperable links.

Shimmin said his office awards contracts to commercial companies with
incentives that “gently encourage different vendors to cooperate
together.” By doing that, “we’ve created a much more collaborative
relationship with our vendors.”

DIU is working with the Space Force and the Air Force Research
Laboratory on the hybrid architecture. The project is intended to
support Pentagon efforts to connect ground, air, maritime and space
systems, a concept known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or
JADC2.

The backbone of the hybrid network will be DoD’s Transport Layer, a
constellation to be deployed by the Space Development Agency, he said.
“We want to augment it with the commercial communications
architectures that are coming online to proliferate the internet in
space, get every satellite talking to every other satellite, relaying
through ground stations regardless of who owns the ground stations,
they should all function as routers.”

The thinking in JADC2 is “to embrace multiple providers so we don’t
have a single point of failure,” said Shimmin. "


https://spacenews.com/starlinks-market-dominance-affecting-dods-hybrid-network-plans/



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