
Rapidly improving technological advances in establishing space platforms and going beyond earth’s stratosphere to explore the distant universe is no longer simply about scientific advancement and generating new commercially viable products in the process.
If you have a deep interest in space policy, especially with a focus on potential military conflicts, this Defense Intelligence Agency publication: "Challenges to Security in Space", will provide a comprehensive resource. It showcases China and Russia's space development programs as competing space nations that may pose future threats to U.S. and other nations with space programs.
As governments develop their space capabilities the probable escalation of potential conflicts could naturally rise. This authoritative work identifies the key issues in the analysis and thought process required to effectively address these increasing threats to open and non-military space environments:
- Key Space Concepts - Communication Satellites - Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance - Satellite Command and Control
- Key Counter-space Concepts - Cyberspace Threats - Directed Energy Weapons - Kinetic Energy Threats
- Space-based Services - Communications satellites
- And more.
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ntroduction 7
Key Space Concepts 8
Key Counterspace Concepts 9
Space-based Services. 11
Orbit Types and Uses 12
China 13
Strategy, Doctrine, and Intent 14
Key Space and Counterspace Organizations 14
Space and Counterspace Capabilities 16
Space Launch Capabilities 16
Human Spaceflight and Space Exploration 18
ISR, Navigation, and Communications Capabilities 18
Counterspace Capabilities 20
Russia 23
Strategy, Doctrine, and Intent 23
Key Space and Counterspace Organizations 24
Space and Counterspace Capabilities 25
Space Launch Capabilities 25
Human Spaceflight and Space Exploration 26
ISR, Navigation, and Communications Capabilities 26
Counterspace Capabilities 28
Other Space Challenges 31
Iran 31
North Korea 32
Outlook 33
Appendix A: Implications of Debris and Orbital Collisions 35
Appendix B: Counterspace Threats 36
Appendix C: Glossary of Acronym 37
U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense (DOD), and allied defense leadership, international policy and operation decision-makers, members of Congress responsible for DOD oversight, instructors, professors, teachers and students of space engineering, Chinese history, political science, military science, international relations should consider this publication as an essential learning tool about the advancements in space technology across U.S. allies, a few foreign militaries, such as Russia, China, Iran, and N. Korea’s militaries.
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