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   https://spacenews.com/companies-are-planning-to-build-space-crit   
   cal-infrastructure-can-space-policy-keep-up/   
      
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   However, real plans to create the first space infrastructure to enable   
   cislunar and interplanetary travel are underway. The difference between   
   “space as critical infrastructure” and “space critical infrastructure”   
   is about to go from abstract to real with the recent announcement of the   
   Marslink project and the ongoing work on LunaNet. Space critical   
   infrastructure will soon be built, and the space community needs to   
   start planning for what systems in space, not just LEO, need to be   
   protected as critical infrastructure. The concept may be abstract for   
   now, but it will not be for long, and the avoidable, unnecessary lag of   
   thoughtful critical infrastructure policy work will leave us needlessly   
   falling behind the pace of technology deployments.   
      
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   Plans for Marslink and LunaNet, even though they are at this point only   
   plans, represent the first moves toward establishing critical   
   infrastructure in space that is specifically designed to enable space   
   activities beyond LEO. This infrastructure will exist to provide   
   communications, PNT and astronaut safety services to multiple missions   
   beyond Earth orbit by multiple spacefaring entities. These will be the   
   first example of actual space critical infrastructure with more to   
   follow as these missions get closer to launch.   
      
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