{"id":261755,"date":"2022-11-29T08:14:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T08:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261755"},"modified":"2022-11-30T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:51:19","slug":"life-no-longer-as-we-know-it-war-in-space-would-have-immediate-effects-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=261755","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Life no longer as we know it\u2019: war in space would have immediate effects, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tory Shepherd \u2013 The Guardian Nov 28, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

It would no longer be \u201clife as we know it\u201d if a space war destroyed the satellites that the world now relies on, space commanders have warned, and China and Russia have demonstrated that they\u2019re capable of doing just that.<\/p>\n

Top brass from the US and Canada are in Sydney for an Australian Strategic Policy Institute conference on space as the new frontier in \u201ccommerce, industry, competition and war\u201d. They have discussed the importance of working with allies, including Australia, to counter the threats posed by space war.<\/p>\n

Lt Gen Nina Armagno, staff director of the US Space Force, said Russia\u2019s destruction of\u00a0one of their own satellites<\/a>\u00a0last year was a \u201cstunning display\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re interpreting that \u2026 as a message and demonstration of capability,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Brigadier general Michael Adamson, commander at 3 Canadian Space Division (Canada\u2019s space force), said on behalf of Canada: \u201cno way \u2026 holy crap, this is a topsy turvy world, you can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSame with us,\u201d Armagno said.<\/p>\n

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International Space Station. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Armagno said China was openly documenting and describing their demonstrations of power in space.<\/p>\n

Asked what the end game could be, she said, \u201cLife as we know it would no longer be as we know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attacks on satellites can take out GPS systems, banking systems, power grids, first responders\u2019 communications, and impact on military operations, they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be dramatic,\u201d Armagno said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does war in space look like? We probably won\u2019t see it with our naked eye but we will definitely feel the consequences from the moment it begins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armagno also described\u00a0China\u2019s 2007 destruction<\/a>\u00a0of one of its own satellites as shocking, irresponsible and intentional. The US was also concerned about an occasion last year where a\u00a0Chinese satellite with a grappling arm<\/a>\u00a0moved another satellite out of orbit.<\/p>\n

Adamson said Russia\u2019s own space program was faltering, leaving it less reliant on space infrastructure. That in turn makes it more likely to \u201csalt the Earth\u201d, or destroy access to space, because it has \u201cless to lose\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

There are two ways attacks on satellites could take out communication networks. A direct attack \u2013 through anti-satellite missiles, grappling arms, or hacking or jamming a satellite \u2013 is one. The other is the debris created by a destroyed satellite. Armagno said the US was still tracking 600 pieces of debris from China\u2019s 2007 \u201cdemonstration\u201d.<\/p>\n

Even a tiny piece of debris could seriously damage spacecraft such as the International Space Station, which manoeuvres to avoid them. The Russian event created 1,500 pieces of debris, which threatened cosmonauts and astronauts on the ISS.<\/p>\n

Armagno said the US and its allies, including Australia, needed to work together to make space more resilient. That included building nimbler, smaller satellites in order to replace any that are destroyed. Australia was developing a number of such satellites and the ability to launch them into orbit, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important for societies to understand the relevance of space,\u201d Armagno said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not space for the sake of space, it really is for likeminded countries to ensure that space is free for spacefaring nations. We all share those values.\u201d<\/p>\n

Air commodore Nicholas Hogan, the Australian Defence Space Command\u2019s space capability director general, spoke at the conference about the ability of China to \u201coutpace\u201d Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we [Australia, the US and Canada] work together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Hogan said the use of anti-satellite technology was a \u201cwicked\u201d problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf somebody had done something in a terrestrial domain, air, land or sea that had a lasting impact of more than a decade, no one would have stood for that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in space, there\u2019s no laws, there\u2019s no rules, there\u2019s no norms \u2026 and this is the area in which we find ourselves. [It\u2019s] one of those wicked problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Outer space has become the new ‘high ground’. As attacks on satellites would take out GPS systems, banking systems, power grids, and impact on military operations, panel at space conference says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":231844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261758,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261755\/revisions\/261758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}