. they are very secretive, there is no openness at all to their space program, they do not want to cooperate and it s primarily a military program as well as a civilian. now, they will tell you that that is not true, but in fact it is true. chinese president seizing ping has talked for years about transforming china into a leading space power by 2045. military and civilian space experts caution that china is now outpacing the u.s. in launches and in modernizing its own space capabilities, completing its own orbit space station, building a remote world bought a post on the far side of the moon, now invisible to u.s. satellites. and deploying offensive
china and russia voted no. simply put, these tests are dangerous. and we will not conduct them. that was just silly. it is going to happen. republican mike rogers is the ranking member of the house of armed services committee. china and russia couldn t care less what our statement policy is with regard to things like that, we need to be working on real policy that provides defensive capabilities to protect our satellites from their offensive endeavors. space force commanders say that all u.s. satellites, military and commercial, are already targeted by russia and china, with cyber pros, single jamming and laser dazzling. the hope, the more satellites the u.s. puts into orbit, the less effective a single attack might be. military commanders worry that china could one day deploy satellites to cislunar, that
we have of exploration and humanity going to places beyond our orbit, they are never going to become true. when we come back, the space force isn t just responsible for protecting u.s. satellites and operations in space, it is also charged with protecting the planet from armageddon. i am. and you need this. i love it! are we in a wayfair commercial? maybe. personal sauna. ok i need that. ahhhhh! wayfair, you ve got just what i need
force and its space command have been responsible for launching americas spy and military satellites. then, in 2019, with more than countries competing at low earth orbit, the white house and congress consolidated those responsibilities under a brand new space force. like it or not, the reality field is that the battlefield is changing from planet earth to space. this is the view of the asian pacific sphere, and the threat matrix in space is very different. it is congested, it is contested, and it is competitive. they make our north warning system look like a picket fence. underscoring the evolving threat, the commanding general of nor red warned in 2022, that america has a quote, picket fence, as an offense against russian intercontinental ballistic missiles. and what we are focused on, bio extremists, for the last 20 plus years, they were developing capabilities to have their homeland not be a risk.
best orbit for a future space station called gateway, that will orbit the moon. this is capstone, the actual size, it is around 50 pounds or, so it has these deployable solar panels that the key to this is the antenna on top, which transmits and connects directly with an orbiting nasa satellite. what we are creating is a gps of the moon that is expandable to effectively become the foundation for what the internet of the moon of the future might look like. and captain is also helping the u.s. gain the high ground with eyes on that cysts lunar space. you are not running a spy satellite, necessarily. but can you see what some chinese satellite activity already? the underlying capabilities we have, to fly a satellite at the moon, allows us to also take other data and track other satellites at the moon, whether it be nasa or other countries. in one of you already seen? we detected an oddly tracked satellite from china that was returning to the moon late last year. how do you