Lockheed Martin gets $4.9 billion contract to build three missile-warning satellites for U.S. Space Force
https://dailygeekreport.com/2021/01/05/lockheed-martin-gets-4-9-billion-contract-to-build-three-missile-warning-satellites-for-u-s-space-force/
Gen. John Hyten, former head of US Strategic Command and now vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, we should move away from procuring a handful of “exquisite” costly satellites that make for “large, big, fat, juicy targets.” Instead of these “fragile, undefendable” devices, he advocated in favor of “more resilient, more distributed capabilities,” such as cheaper, small satellites.
https://thebulletin.org/2019/09/big-fat-juicy-targets-the-problem-with-existing-early-warning-satellites/