Space Threat Assessment 2022

It falls within the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and under the direction of the Supreme Space Council, which is chaired by Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi.48 1 6 S P A C E T H R E AT A S S E S S M E N T 2 0 2 2 The IRGC Aerospace Force was created throughout the 1990s and remains the in 2009 out of the IRGC Air Force to show primary launch site of the ISA. [...] In the wake of the signing ceptors to those threats.” of the Abraham Accords in 2020, several reports indicate that Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have discussed col- SOUTH KOREA laboration in military space efforts.113 Few details on the form of this collaboration South Korea expanded the purview of its military forces have emerged, but the UAE recently inquired in the space domain wit. [...] Moreover, the use of GPS jamming aggression in space (see Defense Against in Russia’s war on Ukraine and the Chinese military’s the Dark Arts in Space for more details on advancement of electronic warfare capabilities in the space defense).186 Over the course of the South China Sea showcase the uses this technology past five years, more countries have re- has for nation-states both before and duri. [...] Nonetheless, the 2021 test has in Ramstein, Germany, to coor- shaken the international space community’s belief dinate the allies’ space activi- ties, as well as a Space Center of A GROWING in the sanctity and safety of the space environment for all nations. [...] Rogozin pursuing research and development of rhetorically questioned the future of the ISS directed-energy weapons to defend satel- based on the fact that the Russian Progress lites from attack.191 With the establishment cargo capsules and the Russian servicing of the Space Force in 2019, conversations module provide primary propulsion and about how to better protect valuable space orbit raising m.