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60 Minutes Provides A Quality Primer On Anti-Satellite Warfare
60 Minutes Provides A Quality Primer On Anti-Satellite Warfare-May 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:14:22

After pimping Amazon delivery drones like an infomercial and throwing the F-35 program the ultimate softball, not to mention a series, it looked like 60 Minutes was losing its luster. Yet last night’s extra-long segment on USAF Space Command and anti-satellite warfare was well worth watching.

U.S. and China are locked in a high stakes contest over satellites that are critical to national…

60 Minutes covered an unusually large amount of material in this piece, checking off many of the boxes we discuss here at Foxtrot Alpha regularly, including satellite blinding lasers, GPS vulnerability, orbital manipulation and the , whose

The X-37B has become a blank canvas for which scientific and paranoid minds alike have painted…

In all, the piece serves as a good basic primer on the fairly youngwhere the tech could be headed and where vulnerabilities clearly exist. I highly recommend it.

Russia launched the Kosmos 2499 rocket mission back in May as part of what seemed like just another

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