The Trump administration must engage China in orbit, opening a line for communication in case of emergencies such as deconflicting potential collisions in orbit, according to a report released Tuesday by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Power demand in orbit is already closing in on 20M watts a year.
“China must come to the table, and the next administration should invite them.”
China has bested the US in the commercial remote sensing Olympics, at least according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Since GPS became operational in 1993, the US has been far and away the leader in satellite navigation technology. But the landscape is rapidly changing, and international alternatives are catching up.
China’s plans for greater connectivity in LEO are coming with a price—a large amount of space debris.
The global competition to field huge satellite networks has a new entrant—China
China expressed goals to boost its global launch market during a recent webinar about the race to the moon.
China successfully soft landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the Moon over the weekend—the third lunar landing in what is shaping up to be a very busy year on Earth’s satellite.
Over the last decade, China has grown its military presence in space to include sophisticated space planes, recon birds, secure comms, SSA, and ASAT capabilities.
China held its annual Space Day conference last week, unveiling new insights into the space program’s hardware development.
China is advancing so “breathtakingly fast” in space that America is at risk of losing its advantage if officials don’t prioritize investment in the national security space architecture, the chief of US Space Command told Congress on Thursday.
The US is at risk of losing leadership in LEO to China if commercial space stations do not come to fruition before the ISS plunges into the sea, two industry officials told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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