A senior U.S. Space Force general is warning that China is emerging as a major threat to satellites and military operations in space.
Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations for the service, cited the threat from anti-satellite missiles, ground-based directed energy weapons and orbiting robot satellite interception capabilities. The four-star general said “a whole mix of weapons” for space warfare is being produced by U.S. strategic competitors.
A Defense Intelligence Agency report last year said Russia is employing electronic warfare, directed energy, anti-satellite missiles and cyber weapons in preparation for a future war in space. In 2020, the Russian military tested a space-based anti-satellite weapon and also has orbiting robot killer satellites, the report said.
“There is a proper way to behave in space, that is not debris-generating, that does not interfere, that has safe distances and safe trajectories, and we communicate when we have problems,” he said. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this week that Moscow will no longer abide by the terms of the New START arms treaty, amid calls by the State Department that Moscow is violating the agreement.
Chinese state-controlled outlets have accused the United States of starting the COVID pandemic and the Ukraine war. But the shift in tone appears to have ended following the Pentagon’s shooting down of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon off South Carolina coast, an incident that set off widespread criticism of China in the U.S.
The engine is expected to expand the operational range of China’s hypersonic missiles by doubling the missiles’ lethality. The fuel for the new engine is boron powder that burns rapidly once in contact with oxygen. Researchers introduced boron powder into the combustion chamber using multiple nozzles that produced shock waves that slowed the air intake.
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