Space-Based Warfare: America’s Dominance Challenged

Space-Based Warfare: America’s Dominance Challenged
The New Atlas
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- 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/kevinhol...

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-provi...
Newsweek - China's Military Satellites Are Watching America's Every Move (May 8, 2024):
https://www.newsweek.com/china-milita...
Economist - China’s satellites are improving rapidly. The PLA will benefit (March 7, 2024):
https://www.economist.com/china/2024/...
Defense One - Chinese satellites are breaking the US 'monopoly' on long-range targeting (May 2024):
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/20...

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/po...
Economist - A Russian anti-satellite missile test puts the ISS in peril (November 2021):
https://www.economist.com/science-and...
BBC - X-37B: Secrets of the US military spaceplane (November 2014):
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...

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/...
New York Times - Russia, in New Push, Increasingly Disrupts Ukraine’s Starlink Service (May 24, 2024):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/te...
CNN - Russia’s jamming of US-provided rocket systems complicates Ukraine’s war effort (May 2023):
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/05/po...

China’s Reusable Rockets

Video From Space - Blastoff! Chinese reusable rocket soars 7 miles high and lands in test (June 24, 2024):
• Blastoff! Chinese reusable rocket soa...
Space News - China to debut large reusable rockets in 2025 and 2026 (March 2024):
https://spacenews.com/china-to-debut-...
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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