Re: A fight to protect ‘the most valuable real estate in space’

[David Morris]

You may be correct.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> "opening up the possibility that outer space would become a new front in
> modern warfare"... ?!?!?
>
> That's been a possibility -- and from time to time an expensively (if
> unproductively) pursued capability -- for 50+ years. Over that span the US
> has very likely spent more on it than anyone, and I wouldn't be surprised
> if we're spending more on it right now than the "threatening" Russians and
> Chinese. NB deep in the article that we had done in ***1985*** what the
> Chinese did in 2007 --- i.e. sent up a missile to blow up one of our own
> dead satellites as a proof-of-principle test.
>
> I think what we have here, in the fine old tradition of the "missile gap"
> in 1957-60 and of the early-1980s stories of Soviet anti-satellite or
> anti-missile super-lasers that helped pave the way for SDI ("Star Wars"),
> is the DoD saying "they're ahead of us!" (in pursuit of increased funding
> from Congress) when it's more likely that they're catching up.
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:08 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-fight-to-protect-the-most-valuable-real-estate-in-space/2016/05/09/df590af2-1144-11e6-8967-7ac733c56f12_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_spacewars6p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
>>
>>
>> The first salvo was a missile launch by the Chinese in 2007 that blew up
>> a dead satellite and littered space with thousands of pieces of debris. But
>> it was another Chinese launch three years ago that made the Pentagon really
>> snap to attention, opening up the possibility that outer space would become
>> a new front in modern warfare.
>>
>>
>
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