New Delhi's adherence to the accords represents a boost to US efforts to rally allies to help counter China's expansion of its own civil and military space activities, as well as Beijing's use of space as a soft-power tool on the global stage.
Experts warn that codifying a norm against long-lived debris may actually provide cover for countries to do anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons tests.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
The Russian Nudol mobile ASAT missile has been tested "as many as nine times in the past," SWF's Brian Weeden told me in an email.
"Russia has become one of the world’s greatest perpetrators of electronic counterspace warfare, jamming and spoofing PNT and communications satellite signals in conflict zones, nearby territories, and within its own borders," CSIS says.
The average person in the world doesn't understand how their way of life is linked to space," says Gen. Jay Raymond, head of SPACECOM. "I don't think the average person understands the threat that exists today."
The Trump Administration's Space Force proposal is "a canary in a very toxic space environment that is warning us about the challenges -- military competition, a sense of vulnerability, increasing capabilities for counterspace operations -- that we are just not dealing with very well," says Jessica West of Canada's Project Ploughshares
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
SPACE SYMPOSIUM: For the first time, the United States is sharing its space war plans, known as Olympic Defender, with a small number of allies, says the head of Strategic Command. Gen. John Hyten told us in a Monday evening interview that a new version of the plan was published “last December,” he said. “Everything that […]
Indian claims of no threat from ASAT test debris is "nonsense."
The India ASAT test could have provided an opportunity for leadership from the Trump administration to help prevent the creation of space debris.