JUST IN: Report Warns U.S. Needs Space-based Weapons to Defend JADC2

[Peter1469]

This is what I have been waiting for- acknowledgement of the need for the US to militarize space.

JUST IN: Report Warns U.S. Needs Space-based Weapons to Defend JADC2

The Space Force needs to deter adversaries from attacking space infrastructure that is critical for data collection and communications, according to a new report from the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.


Satellites and space-based sensors will be a linchpin for joint all-domain command and control — the Pentagon effort to more quickly and effectively collect and transmit data to warfighters anywhere it's needed. This effort starts with the transport layer of satellites in low-earth orbit that the Space Development Agency will start launching in December, said Tim Ryan, a senior fellow at the institute and author of “The Indispensable Domain: The Critical Role of Space in JADC2.”


Released last week, Ryan’s research found that there is currently no back up for the transport layer satellites, he said. While the satellites in space will be hardened to defend against threats such as jamming and kinetic effects, Congress needs to fund offensive and defensive weapons for the Space Force, the report recommended.


“Without a credible deterrence capability, adversaries may be willing to gamble relatively minimal blowback to attack and permanently take out these essential U.S. space-based capabilities,” Ryan said during a Mitchell Institute event Oct. 24.

[RMNIXON]

When they are fully capable the Chinese will target are satellites of course. War in Space has been a concern since the 1950's under Eisenhower.

[LescoBrandon]

We're going to have so much crap floating around in orbit it's going to block out the sun, and we're all going to freeze to death.

[Peter1469]

We're going to have so much crap floating around in orbit it's going to block out the sun, and we're all going to freeze to death.

Like a Dyson Sphere?

[LWW]

Like a Dyson Sphere?

Space is a vacuum, so a Dyson vacuum cleaner should fix that.

[Peter1469]

Space is a vacuum, so a Dyson vacuum cleaner should fix that.

We could put all heavy industry in high orbit along with shipyards and not effect the sun reaching the surface.

[carolina73]

We could put all heavy industry in high orbit along with shipyards and not effect the sun reaching the surface.

After I retire for the heavy industry part. I dread even west coast flights now.

[Peter1469]

After I retire for the heavy industry part. I dread even west coast flights now.

I would think a significant move of heavy industry into high orbit will not be possible until we prefect space elevators (with stations on top of course).