https://spacenews.com/companies-are-planning-to-build-space-critical-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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