LEO.

This is coolbert:

LEO = Low Earth Orbit.

Outer space U.S. Army style.

"ARMY LOOKS TO LEVERAGE ‘LOW EARTH ORBIT’ SATELLITES"

"ARLINGTON, Va. — Constellations of small satellites orbiting close to Earth may provide faster communications and be less vulnerable than traditional ones,"

"Larger geosynchronous satellites are very expensive and vulnerable to attack,"

"Smaller, low earth orbit satellites, known as LEO, will present less of a target . . . they move at faster speeds and because they will orbit in large numbers."

LEO satellites most useful [but not limited to] rapid and world-wide military communications of a redundant nature not so susceptible to destruction. Traditional geosynchronous satellites too expensive and too prone to enemy action.

As was with Motorola Iridium now with LEO? Iridium in the mid-1990's too expensive, hand-sets too cumbersome. LEO a marked advancement in all categories.

See previous blog entries as applicable:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/02/muos.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/09/starfighter-f-104.html

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/10/kestrel.html   [Imaging LEO]

See additionally from the wiki items of interest the Small Satellite and CubeSat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_satellite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat

BERT IN PARTICULAR LIKES THE IDEA OF USING AN ANTIQUE BUT STILL FORMIDABLE F-104 STARFIGHTER AS A LAUNCH VEHICLE FOR THE LEO. GOOD IDEA. AN OLD DOG LEARNS NEW TRICKS AND DOES THEM WELL.

coolbert.