The Pentagon taps Microsoft and Ball to pilot new military satellites

The Pentagon taps Microsoft and Ball to pilot new military satellites

The US military is trying to solve a space problem: Its most valuable satellites are huge, unprotected, and everyone knows where they are. This allows more ambitious and useful constellations to be built on the cheap. From a military point of view, rivals might be able to attack or jam some of these satellites, but not take them all out of the equation.