I guess? Also, who knows how many top secret space weapons there are hiding behind the curtain?)įaced with other countries blowing up and shadowing satellites, US military commanders want to give rivals a reason to think twice about taking offensive action. (A brief note: Acknowledgment aside, the US also has missiles that could shoot down satellites- they demo’d this in 2008!-but maintains that these were modified weapons and not in regular service. Right now, the US only acknowledges one space weapon- a ground-based communications jammer to interfere with signals sent from satellites. But the US wants to do more to show that it shouldn’t be messed with in space. One response to these trends was the creation of the US Space Force as an independent military service. Russia has launched tracker satellites that shadow US government spacecraft and presumably surveil them. In recent decades, multiple powers have demonstrated anti-satellite weapons. As space tech gets cheaper and more capable, the US faces more competition from rivals like Russia and China. The debate within the government comes in response to big changes taking place in earth orbit. Why is the US military talking about space weapons?
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Brian Weeden, an expert at the Secure World Foundation, says perhaps a few dozen people would know the full picture of such a device, which Hitchens reports is considered a Special Access Program, the highest level of secrecy the US government uses. The leak and the weapon itself make for fascinating speculation. As Western military space honchos gathered in Colorado this week, a tantalizing report was published by journalist Theresa Hitchens: The Pentagon was debating whether or not to reveal a top secret space weapon, but the process was put on hold by the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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