Sovereign SATCOM: Inside the Military's Orbital Arms Race

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · May 31, 2026 · 31m

When a commercial satellite provider can restrict where its terminals operate — as SpaceX did in Ukraine — the military implications are profound. That's why the US Space Force operates WGS: twelve geostationary satellites serving as the backbone of American military communications, from drone feeds over Yemen to B-52s over the Pacific. But the US isn't alone. Russia's Blagovest network has four birds in orbit, China's Tiantong has three, and all three nations are racing toward proliferated low-Earth-orbit architectures that could reshape the orbital landscape entirely. This episode breaks…