The Next Battleground: What Do We Really Know About What Adversaries Do in Space?
The Next Battleground: What Do We Really Know About What Adversaries Do in Space?
The Next Battleground: What Do We Really Know About What Adversaries Do in Space?
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As the Pentagon stands up to defend a US debate over the Space Command and Congress over whether it makes sense to create a Space Force, a central focus It is to defend the satellites of the orbital weapons. that would seek to damage or destroy US assets in space.
Washington's policy makers are trapped by the possibility of enemies firing missiles or lasers into the systems of the United States. But that's just a small piece of the puzzle, he says. Jeffrey Gossel, senior intelligence engineer in the Space and Missile Analysis Group at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. The[[Trump Space Force Plan Revealed by Vice President Mike Pence]
More attention should be paid to the larger space infrastructure that Russia and China are putting into orbit, argues Gossel. Many space systems are not weapons, but they still offer powerful capabilities to observe what the United States does and develop strategies to counter the advantages of the United States.
"[A]If we think of space as a domain of war, those weapons are not as important as what our enemies have in orbit"Gossel says during a recent Mitchell Institute event on Capitol Hill, his office is part of the intelligence community, but he supports the Department of Defense, anticipating that the future United States Space Command will be his main client.
"The attraction in Washington for years has been the offensive capability our opponents are developing."
Jeffrey Gossel, Space and Missile Analysis Group
His point is that if a military conflict were to spread to outer space, it is imperative that the United States know precisely the type of satellites and sensors that other countries have in orbit because those would be potential targets for the United States military.
'Know everything about the satellite'
Weapons "are not the things we're going to have to tear down," Gossel says. "When we begin to conduct military operations in space, the intelligence community has to spend more time observing what the enemies have in orbit in a forensic way, to understand everything about that satellite: the materials, the energy source, each Small intricate detail of The Spaceship, we need to know. "
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"If we wanted to put a cybernetic effect, shoot a laser, you just want to cause a specific effect and you do not want anyone to know that you did, you need to know a lot about that satellite and the sensors." From an intelligence perspective we have to concentrate more on those things, not in the weapons that are firing. "
The US government UU He must also have a deeper understanding of what intelligence foreign forces get from the space they provide to their military operators, such as signal intelligence, optical and radar images, says Gossel. "That's the important thing, we want to avoid having that information."
Gossel warns that he only spoke in a generic way about space threats, since the details are classified.
'What can you see and hear?'
"The order of the battle for space is increasing enormously, it has increased enormously in the last decade," he explains. The battle order is a military discourse on how many weapons platforms the opponents have at their disposal. What this means in space is that enemies can have co-orbital weapons to destroy satellites, but the most worrisome is their deployment of satellites that collect information.
"We need to know what they can see and what they can hear," says Gossel.
Space was militarized decades ago, but it was not until China tested a weapon that it knocked down its own satellite in 2007 that Gossel saw no reaction in Washington. That event began the conversation about the ramifications of national security of other countries that challenge the United States. space. Since then, the Pentagon has increased spending on space systems and technologies to defend the satellites of the United States. But Washington's approach to the use of weapons in space loses the big picture. "We need to change our thinking to what our adversaries have in orbit, understand that it could be what we should spend our money on."
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to cover all aspects of the space industry.
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