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CSS Analyses in Security Policy - The New Frontier of Space Militarization

6 Dec 2023

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 and the US’s deploy- ment of Explorer 1 in 1958 kicked off the space race between the two superpowers. [...] In the same year, Congress passed the Communication Satellite Act with the aim of affirming the rights of private companies to own and operate commercial satellites. [...] The second involved the attackers In the early 2000s, the commercial space of such a situation, a commercial satellite flooding the Viasat network with requests industry gained new momentum. [...] According to TASS in October GIS Arta 2023, Vladimir Yermakov, director of the The growth of the commercial satellite sec- Following the Russian invasion of the Don- Russian Foreign Ministry’s department for tor has rapidly increased the militarization bas in 2014, Ukrainian volunteers developed non-proliferation and arms control, warned of commercial space assets – a trend best the Geographic Inf. [...] In the months leading up to the company’s SAR satellites for the Ukrainian at least as of the time of writing.
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