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Competing in All Fields: Technologies for Multi-Orbit Architectures
Fueled by strategic direction and an impending near-peer conflict, the Pentagon is creating resilient transport diversity across multiple constellations. Projects like the Army’s Multi-Orbit Modem, the Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office's contracts for multi-orbit, multi-band satellite capabilities, and SES’s Secure Integrated Multi-Orbit Networking (SIMON) are investing in multi-orbit diversification.

Similarly, commercial sectors — like aviation and maritime — are equally driving adoption, seeking higher bandwidth and greater resiliency through multi-orbit solutions. Airlines are racing to meet passengers' expectations for streaming, driving a surge in flexible, high-capacity in-flight connectivity, and maritime operators are scaling up data use for navigation, IoT…[continued]