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To: palmer

Not where space is concerned. You probably have little understanding of the requirements that go into large scale systems that support the warfighter. While a cell phone can due much more today for less than a computer could do 10 years ago, it does not have to be made to stand the rigors of a high radiation environment, or the shock and loads of launch. We barely have foundries left in this country, much less around the globe, that can make radiation hardened parts that will survive for years or decades in space. Keeping that technology available is expensive. Off the shelf only works for short lived low Earth orbit stuff, and then it cant be counted on past about 90 days. The warfighter need better than that.


48 posted on 06/22/2018 10:06:53 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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LEO means low latency which means real time guidance among other capabilities. All the support to the warfighter will get better, faster (to deploy), cheaper AND longer-lived.


49 posted on 06/22/2018 10:22:56 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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