Key Space Force satellites can’t talk to each other, likely requiring $1B solution: Sources
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To translate between the SpaceX-built SDN Backbone and other Pentagon communications and missile tracking satellites, sources said the Space Force is eyeing 12 or 13 Space Exchange Point birds.
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