NEW DELHI: India’s defence forces are planning to build an integrated satellite communication grid comprising spacecraft in different orbits and data relay systems as space emerges as a new domain of warfare, a senior officer said.
Addressing the DefSat Conference here, Defence Space Agency Director General Air Vice Marshal Pawan Kumar said the defence forces were also looking at collaborating with the industry to meet its requirements to get an edge over its rivals in the domain.
“When you talk of communication, I think the technology that we are focusing on is integrated satellite communication grid. We don’t want any service to be over dependent on a particular satellite,” Kumar said in the inaugural address at the DefSat conference organised by Satcom Industry Association-India here.
