Six years ago, a panel led by Donald Rumsfeld warned about the possibility of a "space Pearl Harbor.".(The Week)(weather satellite of United States being destroyed by China)(Brief article)

Six years ago, a panel led by Donald Rumsfeld warned about the possibility of a "space Pearl Harbor." On January 11, we caught a glimpse of what such a disaster might look like, when China destroyed an aging weather satellite with a ground-based missile. China's development of anti-satellite technology is a provocative threat to U.S. military supremacy, which relies heavily on space-based assets for communications, navigation, and surveillance. Locked into predictable orbits, these satellites are vulnerable to rivals who achieve a minimal competence in rocketry. Liberals tend to look ...