Anti-Satellite Weapons Now Officially A Top U.S. Priority

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"Our space assets need to shoot, move, and communicate just like the rest of the joint force," the head of U.S. Space Command says.

“From the broadest perspective, maybe the most critical characteristic of the responsive and adaptive national security space architecture called for in the President’s Ensuring American Space Superiority executive order is that survivability matters at least as much as performance,” Whiting said. “In space, there is no safe harbor. You can’t dig a trench or build a shield. Our satellites are consistently or predictably in an opponent’s weapons engagement zone. And we can build the most high-performing, exquisite satellites in human history, but if they depend on fragile, targetable supporting infrastructure, their performance will drop to zero on the first day of the next war.”

“Space survivability isn’t just good to have or nice to have. It is need to have.

New Anti-Satellite Weapons Now Officially A Top U.S. Priority

"Our space assets need to shoot, move, and communicate just like the rest of the joint force," the head of US Space Command says.

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