By Breaking Defense, 20 December 2021 While the GEO-based Space-Based Infrared System continues to serve US missile-warning needs, emerging threats and an increasingly contested space environment may benefit from a layered architecture in multiple orbits. There are several major trends today in space-based early warning/missile warning. The first is the
By Paul Robinson, Published by Russia Today, 18 November 2021 News that Russia has tested an anti-satellite missile has sparked concern for spacecraft and, more worryingly, highlighted the lack of international treaties regulating space weapons, meaning the cosmos is becoming a battleground. While the US currently opposes controls on orbital
By Paul Mason, Published by The New Statesman, 17 November 2021 The major powers are engaged in an unprecedented expansion of military power in space, but it remains dangerously covert, opaque and unregulated. On 15 November astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered to “take refuge” in the spacecraft
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By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 17 September 2021 A ship in the Pacific Ocean carrying a high-power laser takes aim at a U.S. spy satellite, blinding its sensors and denying the United States critical eyes in the sky. This is one scenario that military officials and civilian leaders fear
By Walter Pincus, Published by The Cipher Brief, 14 September 2021 Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. Pincus spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown
By Catlin M. Kenney, Published by Defense One, 26 August 2021 “Everything is classified” when it comes to space, one admiral complained. U.S. Navy ships will get new space capabilities in future upgrades as the service looks to increase its contribution to the military’s space efforts, Navy officials said Thursday.
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By Karl Grossman, Published by CovertAction Magazine 25 August 2021 Imagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control of the Taiwan straits; most of the battles are fought through cyber-attacks and space-based weapons systems that had been perfected
By Tara Copp, Published by Defense One, 25 August 2021 Need to track, detect objects driving need for new space domain awareness investment. U.S. Space Command is tracking almost 35,000 objects in low Earth orbit, a 22 percent increase from just two years ago, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head
