The ability to quickly replenish satellites is still far off, though efforts are ongoing to one day make the concept feasible, a top DOD official said today. “That’s a little bit out there,” John Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said during a virtual forum with the Mitchell Institute. “It is a thing in concepts, but it’s hard.” Known as tactically responsive space, rapidly replenishing satellites that go offline is an emerging priority for policymakers who are keen...
