NASA Administrator Wernhardt Clane confirmed the network is operational and declined to specify what it was built to eventually communicate with. "We are building infrastructure," Clane said. "What we build it for — that conversation is for another day."
KerbalX delivered both relays aboard Starship Heavy 3, cementing a heavy-lift win after earlier competitions went split between contractors. The Herald's prior coverage noted intercept geometry circulating in technical circles — math Orbital Mechanics Quarterly has since pressed into public estimates.
Three kerbals are now living in orbit aboard LSI 1. The relays are listening. The object the papers keep describing only obliquely is still waiting.