Battle for space more stealth than Star Wars

What is less widely known is that just a few days before that, the same Russian satellite — known as Luch or Olymp-K — had been approached by an American military satellite named GSSAP, which came to within 10 kilometers of it.

The United States, Russia and China are certainly capable of destroying enemy satellites using missiles, and probably by deliberate collision too. They may also be developing lasers to blind or damage satellites. “It’s not an immediate collision threat,” said Brian Weeden, director of program planning at Secure World Foundation, who has written a report on the movements of those satellites and other space threats.

The Gulf War in 1991 was the first time the US military really integrated space tech into ground operations, mostly using GPS to guide its “smart bombs.” “People called it some kind of a protected space,” said Whelan, who served for 33 years in the Air Force and is today vice president of The Aerospace Corporation.

“We’re at an inflection point,” he said. “We can’t do things the way we used to, everything we do must change.”The whole space sector, both civilian and military, has started adapting to protect itself from jamming and cyber attacks.

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