Let’s talk about the quiet little knife fight happening in the world of space defense. SES, you know, that company that makes “multi-orbit networking” sound like it belongs in a Scandinavian furniture catalogue, just dropped SIMON™. Yeah, that’s Secure Integrated Multi-Orbit Networking, which is basically a shiny name for a system that hops between orbits like it’s late for three different meetings.
SES is pitching this thing like it’s The Godfather Part II of space comms: resilient, elegant, dodging signal jamming, spoofing, and orbital debris like it’s being graded by the Geneva Convention. It’s sleek. It’s polished. It’s built to impress anyone who thinks resilience means writing a white paper about resilience.
