DARPA Program to Develop Low-Earth Orbit Satellite ‘Translator’
August 12, 2022
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently selected teams from academia and large and small commercial companies for a project that will provide seamless communication between military/government and commercial/civil satellite constellations. These satellite contellations are currently unable to talk to each other and this new program will create create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal for better transmission.