“I will be very curious to see how the Space Force shakes out in the next year or so. It’s not going away but how it manifests itself could be different,” said Victoria Samson, Washington Office director for Secure World Foundation.
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“I just think it’s a little too late for trying to have a stamp on something. It is just trying to say that they did something,” said veteran space policy wonk Erin Neal.
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“”Where will the money for this program come from, and will it means less money for the Space Force and all the existing space programs of record?” asks Secure World Foundation’s Brian Weeden.
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Point-to-point space transport is “a decade plus, maybe even multiple decades, in the future for that to be economical and practical from any commercial standpoint,” Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technologies, says.
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“I would say that it’s not the fact, in itself, that we have Space Forces or Space Commands which is concerning. It is what you do with this,” says Maj. Gen. Michel Friedling, first commander of France’s new Space Command.
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“I don’t see another obvious explanation other than it was a weapons test,” said Brian Weeden of the Secure World Foundation.
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“It does raise a lot of questions: namely, what R&D/scientific research did they want to work on that really necessitated this?,” says Secure World Foundation’s Victoria Samson.
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“This is a just a DoD product. The 2011 National Security Space Strategy was very much a DoD-IC product,” one baffled national space security insider said.
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“The hesitation to include allies in Olympic Defender was on our end as well,” says Secure World Foundation’s Brian Weeden. “National security space is sort of the last bastion of America’s ‘crown jewels’.”
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The new rules mean that if imagery can be bought in a foreign country, US operators will now have a right to sell it.
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“I think we need to recognize that the space domain has evolved over the past several years,” says Secure World Foundation’s Victoria Samson. “And then our governance needs to evolve with that.”
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“Ham-fisted US policy has proven counterproductive in the past, and will likely continue to do so in the future,” said Joan Johnson-Freese, a professor at the Naval War College.
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The Russian Nudol mobile ASAT missile has been tested “as many as nine times in the past,” SWF’s Brian Weeden told me in an email.
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The Trump administration should declare a U.S. moratorium on destructive ASAT testing and work with like-minded countries to begin laying the groundwork for an eventual legal prohibition. These would be an immense step forward on limiting future ASAT testing and enhancing space security for both the United States and the world.
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