Space Force plans to put a multisatellite ‘carrier’ into orbit

What’s better than being able to launch satellites quickly to orbit? Having them there already—or so goes the thinking behind a new $60 million Space Force contract to develop an “orbital carrier.”Gravitics received a Strategic Funding Increase award from SpaceWERX, an innovative arm of the Space Force, worth up to $60 million “to demonstrate and fly the Orbital Carrier, a groundbreaking solution for tactically responsive space,” the company announced Wednesda