Australia has scrapped a satellite communications system being developed for the military, the government announced on Monday. Lockhead Martin Australia was awarded the tender to build a Defence owned and operated Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite communications system in 2023. When the tender was awarded, the government said it was a “multi-billion dollar” project that would deliver Australia’s first sovereign-controlled satellite communication system over the Indo-Pacific ocean regions. However, the Australian Defence Ministry said “the acceleration in space technologies and evolving…