“Next month, the United Nations turns 60. The institution has been a colossal failure. It has never achieved its intended purpose.” So states an associate professor in law at the US Coast Guard Academy, Glenn Sulmasy, in an op-ed piece in National Review Online.
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.