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Space; the final frontier.
\n‘Money makes the world<\/del>\u00a0 solar system go around, the solar system go around……………<\/p>\n

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U.S. Space Command to recommend investments in space infrastructure.<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. military should consider investments in space “mobility and logistics\u201d to prepare for the future, said Lt. Gen. John Shaw.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. military over decades has built extensive infrastructure to move troops and equipment around the world. It may now need to start thinking about investing in foundation technologies to support future activities in space, said Lt. Gen. John Shaw, deputy commander of U.S. Space Command.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we move forward, we\u2019re going to want to find ways to be more mobile in space,\u201d Shaw said Feb. 17 at a Washington Space Business Roundtable virtual event.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military currently has no plans to deploy troops to space but should consider investments in \u201cmobility and logistics\u201d to prepare for the future, said Shaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t address those requirements, that would be shutting a door that we need to keep open,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Mobility and logistics are a \u201cstrategic capability\u201d that the military has in the maritime, air and land domains, and should eventually have in space, Shaw said.<\/p>\n

The space industry is developing servicing robots, maneuvering satellites, in-space transport vehicles and other technologies the military would be able to use. Shaw said U.S. Space Command will leverage commercial systems but \u201cwe will also have our own, and we will need the other combatant commands to support us.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a unified combatant command, U.S. Space Command can influence what the Pentagon buys through the so-called \u201crequirements process.\u201d For future operations, Shaw said, the military could \u201cpreposition logistics in space. to replenish space assets rapidly from the Earth\u2019s surface or elsewhere in orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to mobility and logistics, we need to look at the space domain the same way we look at other domains,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will continue to develop requirements along those lines. I cannot imagine operations in space in the decades and centuries to come without mobility and logistics underpinning all of this, like they have in the other domains.\u201d<\/p>\n

Space Force tech development plans<\/p>\n

Space mobility and logistics will be part of a $90 million research and development program that Congress directed in the U.S. Space Force 2021 budget.<\/p>\n

The Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise issued a request for information Nov. 10 asking companies about their planned investments in space mobility and logistics. In a Feb. 17 update, the Space Force said it will start a program for \u201cexpanded space access, mobility and logistics needs to further strengthen U.S. space dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Space and Missile Systems Center\u2019s Space Enterprise Consortium works with many non-traditional aerospace companies that are developing mobility and logistics systems. SMC said the consortium will sign agreements with companies to \u201caccelerate the development of transformational space access, mobility, and logistics prototypes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Space; the final frontier. ‘Money makes the world\u00a0 solar system go around, the solar system go around…………… U.S. Space Command to recommend investments in space infrastructure. The U.S. military should consider investments in space “mobility and logistics\u201d to prepare for the future, said Lt. Gen. John Shaw. WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. military over decades has … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-the-more-things-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65036,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65035\/revisions\/65036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}