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| ‘Mind-boggling': Space Force chief fires off dire warning about Chinese capability to knock out US satellites |
| 2025-04-05 |
| [FoxNews] Space Force Gen Chance Saltzman warns US-China commission that China’s rapid advances in space warfare – including satellite tracking and quantum tech – could soon eclipse US dominance "Mind-boggling" is the word Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman used to describe China’s explosive advances in space as he warned the U.S. is on a path to losing its dominance in orbit. Testifying before the bipartisan U.S.-China Commission on Thursday, Saltzman said China is "heavily investing" in both ground-based and space-based weapons designed to disable enemy satellites, including kinetic strikes, radio-frequency jamming and directed energy weapons. The U.S., meanwhile, is "resource limited" and still weighing "which ones we could get the most utility out of," he said. The general’s testimony came as Congress weighs how to counter growing Chinese aggression in space and whether the Space Force has the tools to keep pace. China increased its military spending by 7% this year, stockpiling anti-satellite missiles and claiming to possess directed energy weapons that use concentrated energy beams to jam satellite signals. There’s also a risk if China were to destroy a satellite in orbit, an action that could trigger a global catastrophe, Saltzman warned, pointing to lingering debris from Russia’s 2021 anti-satellite missile test and China’s 2007 test, which continue to threaten spacecraft safety. China’s space-based targeting capabilities have "grown most impressively" in recent years, Saltzman said, with hundreds of satellites now dedicated to tracking U.S. assets in orbit. That expansion has given the Space Force a "new mission set": to deny China the ability to surveil American satellites in real time. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 ‘Mind-boggling': Space Force chief fires off dire warning about Chinese capability to knock out US satellites At that point we'd be nuking each other rather than waiting for the next step. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-04-05 09:29 |
| #4 US seeks ideas for Golden Dome's missile interceptors in space I still like 3D's maser. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-05 05:35 |
| #3 SpaceX, ULA clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-05 05:30 |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-05 02:16 |