Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2020
Abstract
The US Air Force and the wider US government rely heavily on space-based capabilities in various orbital regimes to project national security and sovereignty. However, these capabilities are enabled by the design, launch, and operation of satellites produced with a design methodology that favors large, monolithic, and technologically exquisite space systems. Despite the ability for these satellites to provide enduring and resilient capabilities, they suffer from a woefully long acquisition process that debilitates any prospect of rapid satellite reconstitution in the event of a space war.
Source Publication
Air and Space Power Journal
Recommended Citation
Linville, D., & Bettinger, R. (2020). An Argument Against Satellite Resiliency: Simplicity in the Face of Modern Satellite Design. Air and Space Power Journal, 34(1), 43–53.
Included in
Defense and Security Studies Commons, Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Commons
Comments
This article appeared in volume 34 of Air and Space Power Journal, a publication of Air University, fully cited below. ASPJ has since been re-launched as Air & Space Operations Review.
Author marked [*] was an AFIT graduate student at the time of publication.