It is intended to provide a protected communications infrastructure for government agencies, security services, and the military rather than operate as a commercial rival to global consumer satellite services.

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    5 days ago

    UASAT also states that its terminals are compatible with the Starlink and OneWeb platforms.

    Reading between the lines here, this means that UA drones equipped with these UASAT terminals can connect to three different satellite constellations to maintain connectivity. That’s going to make it more difficult to jam them.

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      And jamming beam forming satellite communication should be quite a bit harder than jamming local RF or broadcasted GPS
      At least as far as I understood it…