Space-Based Warfare: America’s Dominance Challenged

- Space-based military capabilities allow for precision-guided weapons, navigation, and communication on the battlefield below;

- Russia has developed significant countermeasures for many of the space-based military capabilities the US has used to dominate the planet militarily for much of the 20th century;

- China is closing the gap in terms of space-based capabilities, matching the US in some areas, exceeding it in others;

- The US maintains advantages solely because of SpaceX and its pursuit of reusable launch systems;

- China is already testing prototypes for its own reusable launch systems;

References:

Forbes - Russia’s Losing In Long-Predicted Space War 1 To The West (June 26, 2024):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2024/06/26/so-far-russia-is-losing-the-long-predicted-space-war-against-the-west/

Military Satellites

Business Insider - China is providing satellite intelligence for military purposes to Russia, US warns, says report (April 7, 2024):
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-providing-satellite-intelligence-military-135205726.html?guccounter=1
Newsweek - China's Military Satellites Are Watching America's Every Move (May 8, 2024):
https://www.newsweek.com/china-military-satellites-space-tracking-conflict-1898177
Economist - China’s satellites are improving rapidly. The PLA will benefit (March 7, 2024):
https://www.economist.com/china/2024/03/07/chinas-satellites-are-improving-rapidly-the-pla-will-benefit
Defense One - Chinese satellites are breaking the US 'monopoly' on long-range targeting (May 2024):
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/05/new-chinese-satellites-ending-us-monopoly-ability-track-and-hit-long-distance-targets/396272/

Space-Based Weapons

CNN - US assesses Russia likely launched a counter space weapon last week (May 21, 2024):
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/us-assesses-russia-launched-counter-space-weapon/index.html
Economist - A Russian anti-satellite missile test puts the ISS in peril (November 2021):
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/11/18/a-russian-anti-satellite-missile-test-puts-the-iss-in-peril
BBC - X-37B: Secrets of the US military spaceplane (November 2014):
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121123-secrets-of-us-military-spaceplane

Jamming Space-Based Capabilities

Washington Post - Russian jamming leaves some high-tech U.S. weapons ineffective in Ukraine (May 24, 2024):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/24/russia-jamming-us-weapons-ukraine/
New York Times - Russia, in New Push, Increasingly Disrupts Ukraine’s Starlink Service (May 24, 2024):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/ukraine-russia-starlink.html
CNN - Russia’s jamming of US-provided rocket systems complicates Ukraine’s war effort (May 2023):
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/05/politics/russia-jamming-himars-rockets-ukraine/index.html

China’s Reusable Rockets

Video From Space - Blastoff! Chinese reusable rocket soars 7 miles high and lands in test (June 24, 2024):
https://youtu.be/nTcUaZ9bLD4?si=ffWQBpTF8X4uE4pf
Space News - China to debut large reusable rockets in 2025 and 2026 (March 2024):
https://spacenews.com/china-to-debut-large-reusable-rockets-in-2025-and-2026/
SAST - China Successfully Completes Its First 10 km-level Vertical Takeoff and Landing Flight Test of Reusable Launch Vehicle (June 26, 2024):
https://www.sast.net/news/247.html

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