Blue Canyon To Build LEO Buses For DARPA’s Blackjack Demo

Optical inter-satellites will connect the autonomous Blackjack satellites.
Credit: DARPA
DARPA has awarded Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) a $14.2 million contract to provide commercial satellite buses for the Blackjack program to demonstrate a military constellation of autonomous satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) connected by a high-speed network. While other bus providers remain...
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