Space Command tested the potential of the future Yoda patrol watch satellite during its latest AsterX exercise. Space soldiers train with tools that don't yet exist, are in their infancy, or will only be available in a few years.
Exoatmospheric war is as imminent as it is speculative and all powers are preparing for it. “The threats have been identified,” confides General Philippe Adam, the space commander, returning from AsterX, the main French military space exercise.