According To The Pentagon China’s Offensive Space Technology Is ‘On the March’

China's Tiangong space station has a modular design similar to the International Space Station. (Image credit: China Manned Space Engineering Office)  

Bloomberg: Pentagon Sees China’s Offensive Space Technology ‘On the March’ 

 (Bloomberg) -- China is making sizable, long-term investments in weapons designed to jam or destroy satellites as the nation seeks to rapidly narrow the gap in space technology with the U.S., according to the top intelligence official for the Pentagon’s Indo-Pacific command. 

China is pushing to develop anti satellite weapons with capabilities from “dazzling to jamming, to kinetic kill-from-the-ground, from space -- all that, they’re on the march,” Rear Admiral Michael Studeman said this week during an intelligence-security trade group’s webinar. 

Studeman’s comments mark the most current unclassified assessment of the counter-space capabilities of a nation that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin repeatedly refers to as the top challenge for U.S. defense planning and spending. 

China’s threats to U.S. satellites as well as Russian advances in counterspace technologies were among the primary justifications American officials cited for establishing the U.S. Space Force, the sixth U.S. military service branch and the regional Space Command, during the Trump administration.  

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WNU Editor: China's modern space station has caught everyone's attention on quickly China's space program has grown in the past few years .... China's Tiangong space station: What it is, what it's for, and how to see it (Space.com).

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