It’s more than fuel: Why the Space Force needs in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing - Breaking Defense

It’s more than fuel: Why the Space Force needs in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing - Breaking Defense

It is in the best interest of the Space Force to embrace and actively pursue a future objective architecture founded in on-orbit logistics — the replacement of expendable commodities like fuel and the upgrade of hardware and software components. The ability to sustain, upgrade, and modify on-orbit capabilities through in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) may prove to be as decisive in future space conflicts as logistics has pro…