Shaw envisions creation of 'internet of space things'

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One of the top officials at U.S. Space Command said today he foresees the formation of "an internet of space things" that would facilitate autonomous communications between satellites and constellations, bolster awareness and avoid collisions. All of that, SPACECOM Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. John Shaw said, would be part of "a broader connection" that he likened to the development of a single internet that's currently largely accessible around the world. "In the same way that we see terrestrially that it's rare now that you find a new technological device that doesn't connect to the internet, that is somehow part of that broader ecosystem, I think we'll find as we go into space that same thing will happen," he told attendees of the Small Satellite Conference during a keynote address.