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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...
That's basically exactly this ^
“If there’s anything that’s sounding mechanical to it, it’s because we’re using the exact same time function, or standard way of plucking, for each note,” says Makris, who is himself a lute player. “A musician will adapt the way they’re plucking, to put a little more feeling on certain notes than others. But there could be subtleties which we could incorporate and refine.”
Reusable rockets started with DC-X. SpaceX's first contract was for DARPA's FALCON Project (predates their rocket name). They're not exactly hiding intentions.
Aand of course it's open source, https://github.com/open-space-sdr/main/
On the I/O side, getting even a basic 400MHz oversampled SerDes into a first-gen test chip puts this way ahead of most academic open FPGA efforts.
Really looking forward to seeing the Terra family expand and how the test chips perform.
Their standalone 4-antenna tiles (https://moonrf.com/updates/) show off some killer apps, like 30 fps spatial RF visualization and NEON-optimized drone video interception.
I'm rolling my eyes at the "Agentic Transceiver" part, though. It is highly doubtful that an onboard AI casually writes, debugs, and compiles a real-time C app with analog video color sync recovery and decode in ten minutes.