There was no commercial application for the P-51. The P-51 was there to be a fighter escort and sweep asset for air superiority missions. As operational concepts mature for space superiority, those operational concepts will drive a performance envelope for warfare that will be mutually exclusive of commercial applications. Not in all cases. There are spinoffs that can happen, to be clear, but we\u2019re focused on getting the war-fighting technologies right, and we believe the market will support this thesis.<\/p>\n
Ars: This is an interesting topic, the idea of developing doctrine and learning how to use new technologies in warfare. I read the first munition was dropped from an airplane in 1911, before World War I. It\u2019s interesting to trace where the space domain is in that arc and compare it to how humans learned how to fight in the air.<\/p>\n
Rogers: That\u2019s what I spend most of my time thinking about. How are we going to use space systems for warfare in the future? We have all the applications for intelligence and missile warning and communications, but we\u2019re just starting to think about space warfare, offense, and defense.<\/p>\n
By the way, those decompose into different missions on the basis of the specific tactical tasks that need to be accomplished\u2026 That means that there are going to be, just like in every other domain, platforms that are purpose-built, that really only have a [military] function. There\u2019s no other function for a guided bomb unit, a GBU, other than for warfare. The B-2 has no commercial application. Lockheed Martin doesn\u2019t sell F-35 to United Airlines, right? That\u2019s because the mission drives the design, so I\u2019m just basically vehemently agreeing with you.<\/p>\n
Ars: Is True Anomaly building sensors, weapons, or things for on-ship awareness? Or just the spacecraft bus?<\/p>\n
Rogers: We are absolutely designing and building payloads. We hope to announce a few early payloads this year, but we really see ourselves as a full-stack mission solution provider across a wide variety of space superiority missions. We\u2019re going to build a wide variety of sensors for different mission applications: optical sensors, active sensors, lidars, radars, you name it. We\u2019ll leverage our existing supply base where we can, but for most missions, we\u2019re going to provide the full stack of capability, payload, spacecraft, software, and then ops and sustainment, and tactics development and training as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no commercial application for the P-51. The P-51 was there to be a fighter escort and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-533608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}