Space warfare
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Space warfare is combat in which one or more belligerents are in outer space. The scope of space warfare includes ground-to-space warfare, such as attacking satellites from the Earth; space-to-space w
A United States Air Force illustration of a hypothetical Soviet Armed Forces space weapon
A USAF F-15 Eagle launching an ASM-135 ASAT (anti-satellite) missile in 1985
Launch of an interceptor derived from Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme for ASAT test on March 27, 2019
A Trident missile launched from a Royal Navy Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarine
United States Space Force
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The United States Space Force is the space service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and was established on 20 December 2019. Part of the United States Department of Defense, it is one of the
Space warfare
…bodies but does not prohibit the military use of Earth orbit or military space forces. Independent space forces are operated by the United States (US Space Force) and China (People's Liberation Army Aerospace Force). Russia operates significant space assets under the Russian Space Forces. The Cold War prompted…
Concept of a future space interception
Missile warning radar at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland
USSF Falcon Heavy launch from Kennedy Space Center
Launch of Explorer 1, America's first satellite, by the U.S. Army (1958)