The Space Development Agency won't change its approach to creating the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture in response to reports of a Russian space-based nuclear weapon, Director Derek Tournear said today. The PWSA strategy is based on proliferating tracking and data transport satellites in low-Earth orbit rather than relying on a few large satellites in medium-Earth or geosynchronous orbit. By proliferating and creating redundancy, the system is less vulnerable to point-to-point attacks, Tournear said at the Defense and Intelligence Space Conference...
