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Space Information Warfare Looms, As U.S. Military Seeks to Use Starlink, Other Commercial Providers

Space Information Warfare Looms, As U.S. Military Seeks to Use Starlink, Other Commercial Providers
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. carrying 60 Starlink satellites on May 26 (SpaceX Photo)

Information warfare using satellite data looms as a new frontier of "gray zone" conflict between the United States and China. Last October, China said that it had begun an effort to launch 10,000 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) in the next decade--a constellation nicknamed China StarNet. In March, Bao Weimin, a director of the Science and Technology Commission of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), confirmed China's plan to forge ahead on the Guówang (GW)--Chinese for national…

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