TSAT delayed by six years
26/12/2008Erik Holmes writes for Defensnews that
The Air Force announced Tuesday that it will restructure the Transformational Satellite Communications System program, delaying by six years a satellite system designed to dramatically expand the military’s bandwidth.
The service will release a new draft of its request for proposals later this week, according to an Air Force press release.
The first TSAT satellite, which had been scheduled to launch in 2013, will now not launch until 2019, according to the press release.
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The TSAT system is designed to provide 100 times the bandwidth of the military’s current communication satellites, called MILSTAR. It will also be able to move classified and unclassified information with the same hardware.
See my December 2007 article on TSAT, written for “Panorama Difesa”.
