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How commercial satellite constellations fit into the Army’s future tactical network designs 4 hours ago U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, assemble a satellite antenna in 2019 in Slovenia. The Army is looking for smaller satellite terminals for low-Earth and medium-Earth orbit capabilities. (Paolo Bovo/U.S. Army) JOINT BASE MYER‐HENDERSON HALL, Va. The U.S. Army will begin implementing advanced satellite communications technology to increase network resiliency as part of its next iteration of tactical network tools. Adding low-Earth orbit and medium-Earth orbit capabilities commercial satellite constellations into the service’s tactical network repertoire is part of the service’s effort to shift to dispersed battlefields, instead of the fixed fiber communications and forward operating bases that defined the last two decades of war in the Middle East.

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