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Ex-Congressman Urges More Defenses For U.S. Satellites

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

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Ex-Congressman Urges More Defenses For U.S. Satellites

Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.)

Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, said June 30 that the United States needs to better protect its national security satellites against hostile missiles.When China launched a ground-based missile to destroy one of its own satellites in a 2007 test, it underscored the increasing vulnerability of American satellites. But the United States has not done enough since then to improve its satellite defenses, Rogers said at a…

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