The Missile Defense Agency enlisted lawmakers, Capitol Hill staff, and journalists this week in a war game demonstrating simulated missile attacks on US soil. According to Reuters news service, there was at least the semblance of some reality because the game planners allowed one of the US interceptor missiles to fail to launch, letting its intended target strike the Aleutian Islands. It remains to be seen whether the war-game gambit was successful in making missile defense system believers out of more legislators. We bet it will still be a tough budget sell.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.
