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"Each nation possesses unique advantages, technological capacities, and strategic geographic positions that, when combined, have the potential to significantly advance humanity's understanding of what's going on in space," the paper says.
"So, what worries me most is China's use of space to complete the kill chain necessary to generate long-range precision strikes against the maritime and air components scheme of maneuver. That's what concerns me the most," Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander of Space Forces Indo-Pacific, said.
By targeting two asteroids instead of one in NASA's DART mission, humanity's first planetary defense test, the U.S. space agency greatly reduced the experiment's cost.