Analysts question Germany’s request for defensive and inspector satellites

Illustration of the German Earth observation satellite TerraSAR-X and its orbit around Earth. Credit: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

LONDON — The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is looking to purchase satellites capable of jamming other spacecraft and inspecting objects in space, and it wants to do so on tight deadlines.  But experts are skeptical whether Germany could achieve the ambitious goals including launches on a yet unflown domestic launcher after years of underinvestment into […]

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