Tag: Counterspace
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U.S. Intelligence Warns China Could Deploy Orbital Directed-Energy Weapons by Late This Decade
The assessment identifies two distinct threats to systems operating in space. One centers on China’s potential to deploy directed-energy weapons in orbit within the current decade. The other concerns Russia’s ongoing development of counterspace capabilities aimed at satellites. According to the assessment, China’s timeline for fielding space-based directed-energy weapons extends to the end of the…
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German Space Command Chief Warns Russian Satellites Are Shadowing Allied Spacecraft
The warning places a senior European military-space official on record describing active on-orbit shadowing by Russian assets, a direct counterspace concern. It also draws attention to how heavily Ukraine’s war effort depends on commercial satellite systems that were never designed to be contested military targets. Traut described Russian military satellites as shadowing allied spacecraft, a…
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US Space Force Confirms Operation of On-Orbit Weapons, Emphasizes Deterrence
The U.S. Space Force operates weapons in orbit to defend American and allied forces against space-enabled attacks, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess said during a September 15 address at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. The unusually direct acknowledgment broadens the publicly confirmed scope…
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US Space Force Operating On-Orbit Space Control Weapons, Air Force Secretary Says
The U.S. Space Force is operating on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending American and allied forces from hostile action, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said September 14 during the Air & Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. The disclosure is the Pentagon’s most explicit public acknowledgment that…