Given the importance and given that vulnerability, does it not make strategic sense to spread these capabilities over smaller satellites, different satellites, commercial satellites so that we do not have a Pearl Harbor of space where a few major facilities are knocked out and then we are in trouble?
Senator King emphasizes the need for diverse satellite capabilities to avoid vulnerabilities.
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