Secure World Foundation report highlights growing reliance on orbiting systems and spread of interference technologies

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China is rapidly advancing a broad spectrum of counterspace capabilities as part of a sustained push to secure military power in orbit.

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The Secure World Foundation in its annual report details military space capabilities developed by 12 countries

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HELSINKI — China is expanding its presence and capabilities in the strategically vital geostationary belt, raising security concerns due to unpredictable satellite movements, according to experts. Participants in a panel […]

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‘It’s surprising how many counterspace activities happen right under our noses’

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Russia has ramped up its space warfare capabilities over the last decade as it seeks to regain Soviet-era military advantages that were lost after the Cold War

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The People’s Liberation Army is working comprehensively on the technology and training tools for on-orbit satellite refueling for both peacetime and wartime scenarios.

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As more nations seek to explore the vast expanse of space, there is increasing competition and congestion in orbit, according to two new reports released April 14.

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The recent Chinese spy balloon scare has attracted the attention of a bipartisan coalition in Congress, which is concerned about just how robust China’s satellite and intelligence operations are. 

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A new report by the Defense Intelligence Agency notes that the space fleets of China and Russia grew more than 70% in just over two years.

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As space becomes increasingly important to terrestrial activities, the tools and weapons available to disrupt and damage satellites are proliferating around the world, according to two reports released April 4.

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The risk that conflicts on Earth will extend to space will grow as China and Russia step up developments of ant-satellite weapons, the U.S. intelligence community warns in its annual report.

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China’s Shijian-21 space debris mitigation satellite has docked with a defunct Chinese satellite to drastically alter its geostationary orbit, demonstrating capabilities only previously exhibited by the United States.

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U.S. space tracking has detected a new object for unknown purposes orbiting along with China’s recently launched Shijian-21 space debris mitigation technology satellite.

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The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Secure World Foundation on April 1 released new updates on space weapons developments around the world.

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CSIS and SWF released their annual assessments of global counterspace weapons.

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The Counter Communications System was first introduced in 2004. An updated version, called CCS Block 10.2, has completed tests.

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DoD testing report: “We must thoroughly understand how our systems will perform in space."

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Two new reports are out: CSIS “Space Threat Assessment 2019" and SWF “Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment."

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DIA report: U.S communications, reconnaissance, navigation and early warning satellites could be among the targets of China's counterspace weapons.

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We must correct a wrong notion that bringing up robotic threats would raise doubts about the enormous benefits in the development and deployment of commercial robotic servicing spacecraft. Dual-use systems always have the dangerous side, which can be fixed if we do not ignore it.

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