Re:Starlink's Disruption of the Space Industry
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:19PM
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> Terrence J O'Shaughnessy also runs Starshield at SpaceX. He was in charge of U.S. homeland missile defense
Starshield is Starlink for the military. It came after Starlink. It is neither a root of Starlink nor a missile-defence project at this time. (Maybe it eventually gains that capability. But that’s not currently in play.)
Starlink came about because SpaceX built cheap, high launch frequency rockets for, at first, NASA. It doesn’t shoehorn into an SDI origin by any stretch. At the point we’re contorting to make that connection, it might as well be part of our ballistic missile programme.
> The full report
Yes, people want missile defense. That doesn’t make everything in space is missile defense.
Terrence J O'Shaughnessy also runs Starshield at SpaceX. He was in charge of U.S. homeland missile defense.
Kuiper (the Amazon competitor) has another four-star general who focused on missile defense: John Hyten.