Pentagon released details of Beijing’s quickly growing Space Defense Program

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Important Takeaways:

  • Space race 2.0: China is building weapons to attack U.S. ‘ground, sea, or air targets from orbit’
  • The Pentagon released details of Beijing’s growing space arms arsenal last week in its annual report to Congress on the Chinese military.
  • The Chinese military is also working on missiles that can attack strategic satellites in geosynchronous orbit
    • The report noted China’s destructive missile test against a Chinese weather satellite in 2007. That test generated more than 3,000 pieces of dangerous debris. A total of 2,700 pieces remain and will continue orbiting for decades, the report said.
  • China’s military also is building sophisticated space-based robots for satellite inspection and repair that also can attack satellites.
    • Last year, the PLA launched multiple satellites for space maintenance and debris cleanup. The Shijian-21 was sent into geosynchronous orbit in January and moved a defunct BeiDou navigation satellite “to a high graveyard orbit above GEO,” the report said.
  • China also has established a system of sensors that can search, track and target satellites.
  • More sophisticated lasers are being developed.
    • “By the mid- to late-2020s, China may field higher power systems that extend the threat to the structures of non-optical satellites,” the report said.
    • “The PLA expects space to play an important role in future conflicts by enabling long-range precision strikes and in denying other militaries the use of overhead command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems,” the report said.

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