Opinion: The American advantage in space is narrowing. Congress can act to reverse that, writes ActingSecDef.
Telecommunications, precision agriculture, financial markets, transportation, logistics—core components of America’s $20 trillion economy depend on technology based in outer space. So does the U.S. military.
From secure communications networks to rocket-launch detection systems to the interception of terrorist messages, space capabilities are crucial to national defense. For decades, these capabilities were uncontested. That has changed.To Read the Full Story
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