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The system the Administration is looking at would link a network of ground-based radars and space-based sensors with 100 missile interceptors located at a single site.
The ground control stations send their commands to Reaper via a fibre-optic link to a satellite relay station in Europe, which bounces them into space and back down to the aircraft.