“If we have to do it, we are prepared for it.” The United States leaves no room for doubt in its willingness to go out into galactic battle if forced to. Although not surprising, it is shocking to see how his work outside of Earth is not just dedicated to research. If they come across any threats, they won’t hesitate to respond.
In recent years, space research and exploration has been advancing by giant steps. Every time new discoveries are made and the mysterious world that exists outside the planet is understood a little more. For this reason, the United States does not want to leave anything to chance and has launched a warning to sailors that it hopes its main rivals will hear loud and clear.
Preparing for galactic war?
For now, possibly, they are just launching hypotheses and increasing defenses. They say from the United States that they have encountered very provocative comments from some of the main world powers with whom they do not have a good relationship and who are also exploring space. The galactic missions of Russia and China are multiplying and that is something that worries the United States, which does not want any of the other superpowers to become a space danger.
Specifically, the Americans say that they have developed anti-satellite technology that will allow them to battle potential space threats that may be encountered. At the same time, they comment that they have reached this situation because “they have no other option.” They have not sought out orbital skirmishes, but the threats they have received from their rivals have pushed them to seek solutions. In addition, the level of preparation that they claim to have is beyond conjecture. Says Jesse Morehouse, of the country’s space unit, that if they had to fight tonight in space, they could do it.
but they don’t want to fight
From the way they present their point of view, it seems that the first thing for Americans, at least right now, is research. And first and foremost, they are upset that the orbital environment is being spoiled with a lot of space junk being generated by these rival powers that they would be willing to take on. The main complaint of the United States is how countries like Russia and China are using their anti-satellite systems by destroying their own machines, which generates a worrying amount of waste.
But the problem is that the advances of the rivals of the United States are being more and more aggressive and their applications are going more and more out of any forecast. For example, China has already put a satellite into orbit that includes a robotic arm that can grab and hit other satellites, which could be one of its weapons for space warfare. For its part, Russia is developing a ship that would be put into space with the intention of destroying its rivals’ satellites. Explosives have also been created that can wait to be detonated for a long period of time and then make it difficult to detect whether they were responsible for the explosions.
For the United States, one of the objectives continues to be to work on its own defense and attack systems in a way that, at least, does not produce space junk. They also want to get to a point where they have such a number of satellites that their potential enemies have no interest in taking them down, since taking them all down would require too many resources. Morehouse refers to how Elon Musk’s satellites have actively participated on the Ukrainian side in its conflict against Russia and how the Russian military has not seen the logic of dedicating itself to eliminating them because there were simply too many satellites.
Therefore, it seems that the progress of the United States and its strategy make sense in the perspective of the defense of orbital space, which they do not want to fill with dirt. But you would have to know all their plans in depth and the secrets they hide to better understand what they are preparing. It would also be interesting to know how they are considering that these satellites can play an active role not only in the fight against Earth powers that try to conquer space, but with other possible and theoretical galactic forces. After all, surely the Americans do not rule out that there may be something else out there.
