Australian military looks to build crucial space capabilities that will support Aukus nuclear subs

Defence department puts out call for satellites that can talk to each other and to the ground, are scalable, rapidly deployable and reconstitutable'

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Defence is looking for a mesh of military space satellites that can talk to each other as well as to the ground, and is scalable, rapidly deployable and reconstitutable".

The system, in other words, would need to be able to be made bigger, to be quickly put into action and to be repaired in case of attack or accident.

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