Prospects of Military Space Industry
... advantages to those who are better versed in using such tools: first and foremost in the fields of command and control, stable communications, navigation, reconnaissance, and the application of precision munitions. This trend calls for reappraising space-based equipment as a possible destabilizing factor, given the direction in which technology is evolving. Research into the militarization and weaponization of space as a threat to international security specifically focuses on conventional anti-satellite weapons. The test conducted by China in January 2007, and America’s response in February 2008, can also be described as conventional, but there are reasons to believe that the ...