Today, war on the ground is partly won in exo-atmospheric space thanks to the means of transmission or observation.
In the future, the equipment, which will be connected to each other via satellites, will process immense masses of data.
Logically, these will become targets or objects of interest for espionage.
The confrontation seems inevitable between space powers.
Who are the players in the space war?
Since the first Sputnik flight, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, the conquest of space has been inseparable from the ambitions of state power.
Today, space is an essential component of economic life.
While rocket launch capability remains scarce, nearly 90 states have at least one satellite in orbit.
The CNES lists some 22,000 objects in orbit around the earth, of which 2,200 are active, that is to say satellites in operation.
Not all are identified, the great powers sometimes forgetting to declare
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