Maybe if we combine the Space branch with national parks, everyone will quiet down.
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Maybe if we combine the Space branch with national parks, everyone will quiet down.
...until the next government budget shutdown and then the national parks and space will be closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
The best protection of our satellites is the fact that most of our adversaries have satellites in the same orbital plane. If Russia or China destroy a U.S. satellite they will be risking their own too.
Saw this and laughed.
https://i.imgur.com/o00Cj99.png
That makes way too much sense. It is also not flashy enough for people to think about. We need more shiny objects to drool over...Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
You mean like Russia is doing in its own military networks? :) Gee, I wonder why they are doing so?Quote:
Originally Posted by foxtrot
Cybersecurity is a huge part of anything to do with space for obvious reasons. It's also something that DoD has been pouring a lot of resources into dealing with.Quote:
I'd prefer we take all the money, use it to increase cyber (defensive and offensive) and harden our electrical infrastructure (broadly) and create/maintain redundancies to any critical satellite based comms or surveillance. Because when it comes right down to it, there's about shit diddly we or anyone else can do to protect near earth orbits already, and the outer orbits won't be too hard to universally take out soon. Once the tech is down, by the time we managed to destroy anti-satellite weapons most likely all our satellites would be toast. Things aren't there yet, but it's not far off.
Regarding space assets, there's a movement afoot to adopt commercial procedures and processes in acquisition, with the hope of being able to launch and orbit space assets at a much lower cost and much more rapidly than is currently able to be done. This has been a particularly personal drum that Gen. Hyten has been beating for several years now.
The Chinese and the US have both successfully tested ASAT weapons.Quote:
have a hard time believing China/Russia doesn't already have the weapons and strategy in place to take out the vast majority of our satellites if it comes down to it.
For the US, this dates back to the mid-'80s. It's just become easier since then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin