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Defense Official Lays Out China’s Military Space Developments

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, December 6th, 2022

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Defense Official Lays Out China’s Military Space Developments

A Chinese Long March 2F Y12 rocket being rolled out from Launch Vehicle Vertical Assembly Building at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 9 last year.

China has launched 150 satellites so far this year to bring its total to 650 and is expected to develop an anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon targeting geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) systems, a top Pentagon official said on Dec. 6. "China has the operational direct ascent ASAT missile intended to target low Earth orbit satellites, and the intelligence community assesses that China probably intends to develop a similar system to target satellites up to geosynchronous Earth orbit," Travis Langster, the principal director…

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