Telesat teams up for U.S. Air Force demos

BETHESDA, MD — Ball Aerospace and General Dynamics Missions Systems are collaborating separately with Telesat to demonstrate cloud processing and data operations with Telesat’s low earth orbit satellite constellation for the U.S. Air Force, the companies announced Tuesday. Telesat’s Phase 1 LEO satellite and network emulations will be used in live demos with Ball Aerospace and General Dynamics for the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) program. CASINO is focused on operationalizing Blackjack, a project of DARPA. Blackjack is demonstrating how the U.S. military can increase the resilience of its networks...