DoD needs to see what’s going on around the Moon. A former NASA chief predicts the agency is about to boost budgets to make sure it can.
Jim Bridenstine, a former Oklahoma Republican lawmaker who led NASA in the first Trump administration, said the US needs to add sensors in both cislunar space and on the surface of the Moon to keep tabs on the actions of adversaries in orbit.
“In the coming years, you’re going to see more and more spending from the DoD on those capabilities. It’s going to be necessary,” Bridenstine said Wednesday at Payload’s Lunar and Mars Economy Summit. “The DoD will be late, because they always are…but at the end of the day, it’s got to be done.”
Other highlights from Bridenstine’s remarks:
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Source payloadspace.com
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