Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 21 communications satellites for the Space Development Agency
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The SDA’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer is turning into a real, proliferated defense network—21 more birds up means more resilient, lower-latency comms as a baseline assumption. If your product touches defense, treat space-based connectivity as an always-on fabric, not a special integration.
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