Enter the hunter satellites preparing for space war – ArsTechnica

by | Feb 5, 2023 | Blog

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What’s New: Commercial entity building satellites for remote proximity operations (RPO).

Why it’s Important:

  • Until now, only militaries could do.
  • RPO can inspect, disable, or destroy other satellites without creating hazardous debris.
  • There are more commercial satellites in space than military.
  • Commercial capabilities could serve military or other interests.
  • This development will likely be a destabilizing influence in space which has too few norms and too little stability.

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Enter the hunter satellites preparing for space war

Startup plans to launch prototype pursuit satellites on a SpaceX flight later this year.

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Former US Air Force major Even “Jolly” Rogers is worried about a space war. “Conflict exists on a continuum that begins with competition and ultimately leads into full-scale conflict like what you’re seeing in Ukraine,” he says. The US, he adds, is already “in active competition with Russia and China for freedom of action and dominance of the space domain. And it’s evolving very quickly.”

So on January 26 last year, the former US Air Force major incorporated True Anomaly, Inc to “solve the most challenging orbital warfare problems for the US Space Force,” he later tweeted.

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