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Australia scrapped satellite because new tech could 'shoot it out of sky', says defence minister

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Australia 's defence minister says a defence satellite program was scrapped because of new technology that can "shoot satellites out of the sky" Canberra instead wants to use a mesh of micro satellites for defence communications.

Australia 's Department of Defence said on Monday it cancelled a multi-billion dollar satellite project with Lockheed Martin .

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