The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

What could space war look like?

2021-01-24T18:49:35.532Z


INVESTIGATION - If the competition between the United States, China and Russia is launched, France also intends to equip its armies with a satellite network


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

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 87% left to discover.

Subscribe: 1 € the first month

Can be canceled at any time

I ENJOY IT

Already subscribed?

Log in

Source: lefigaro

All news articles on 2021-01-24

You may like

News/Politics 2024-02-15T09:22:10.279Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.