SpaceNews:

The Pentagon could get far more bang for its missile-defense buck if all the sensor satellites located in different orbits could talk to each other and share data via optical links, according to a proposal floated by Lockheed Martin to create a multi-orbit data transport network in space.

Data collected from every orbit is needed to defend against advanced ballistic and hypersonic missiles, said Eric Brown, senior director of military space mission strategy at Lockheed Martin.

“You can imagine a chain all the way from early warning through intercept without ever having to go to the ground. That’s kind of the vision that we have, but that requires connecting all the various orbital regimes,” he told SpaceNews…

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