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Boosters ignition. And lift off of artemis one. We rise together, back to the moon and beyond. Roaring off launch pad 49 be at the Kennedy Space center, the next chapter in americas love affair with all things space. And is on the core stage into Solid Rocket Boosters now prevailing the vehicle at 128 miles per hour. Nasas artemis rocket, the most Powerful Ebel built headed for a multi day crew orbit around the moon. A test flight before astronauts climb into the orion spaceship and head for a lunar landing, perhaps within 2 to 5 years. Flanked with two booster rockets, artemis looks like apollo on steroids. 15 more powerful than the Monster Center five rockets that carried apollo astronauts to the moon. There is a lot out there to explore, and this is the next beginning. And this is the artemis generation. Artemis is all about asserting americas leadership of space, building a lunar base, and orbiting lunar Space Station. Then, in the late 2030s, a Mission To Mars. The moon is a few days away. Mars is months away unless we can develop new propulsion that can take us faster, and that is what we are going to have to do to figure out how we keep humans alive going millions and millions of miles, and then bring them back alive and have all of the supplies that you need. Artemis is the twin greek god of apollo, who has perfect aim. And nasa is building heavily off the lessons built from apollo, the tragedies and the triumphs. This is the quality base here, the eagle has landed. As it aims for a permanent return to the moon. We copy you on the ground, we are breathing again, thank god. A lot has changed since july 1969 when this Mission Control room put Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin on the moon. Back then, it was all about human exploration, innovation, technology, learning what is beyond the earth. 50 plus years later, it is now also about a strategic and National Security imperative. As nasa heads for the moon and mars, A Geostrategic chess game, is today playing out just 200 miles above the earth, where one wrong move could take out an entire constellation of satellites, upon which the Global Economy and our gps systems all depend. Joint chiefs chairman in November 2022 with a stark warning. We are in the middle of one of the most fundamental changes in the air of the world, in history of mankind. And talk of war extends into space. The space race is no longer a race between just the u. S. And russia, china has leapt on russia, launching more rockets than the u. S. In 2022, completing its own orbiting Space Station. Landing Robotic Missions on the far side of the moon. That country that adapts the fastest, that country that innovates the most, that country is going to have a decisive advantage at the beginning of a war, which i suspect will happen at some point in time, sometime in the deep future. Lets go into space because it is in our dna Neil Degrasse tyson is americas best known astrophysicist. The u. S. And china seem to be engaged in a new race to the lunar surface. How do you see this playing out . We kind of have already been, theyre all right . So in that sense, it is not a race. However, right now we dont have the capacity to send humans back. Not yet. And so it is a race that isnt being run anymore. I think american pride, if china gets there before us even for a second time, that might bruises a little. And maybe we will redouble it and say okay, you take the moon, we are going to mars, if that we doubles that. By the way that would be a geopolitical decision, sure, go for it. Using infrared satellites, every rocket and Missile Launch anywhere in the world is immediately tracked here. This is Missile Warning officer. Im tracking 0098 zulu. At the us Space Command, the joint Operation Center in a. The zeano, the very top of our space Operation Centers with the department of defense. Our cameras were the first cameras allowed inside. Lieutenant general john shaw is the Deputy Demand or. Thats how quickly do they learn something is launched somewhere in the world. We have some really good Space Capabilities today that will tell us that there is any launch. At the pentagon, forced our Space Force General Thompson Says russia continues to jam the gps signal on the ground in ukraine. The same signal provided by the constellation of 30 orbiting Gps Satellites that the u. S. Provides to the world for free. It is that localized ability to jam the signal so the oval receivers cannot receive the information. As the war progressed in the spring of 2022, european airlines, including finn air, accused russia of jamming the gps signals along its border with finland, the civilian airlines rely on. U. S. Military sources also claimed russia has launched Cyber Attacks against the Spacex Starling Satellites over ukraine that provide the country with internet access. Though the u. S. Military says that spacex engineers were able to defend against to the attack by rewriting several lines of Computer Code i think a lot of us expected at the start of the ukraine conflict like that that everything would go lights out. With the ukrainians they would be locked out from the rest of the world, but when starlinks it they can continue to have access to the internet no matter what is happening to them. I think that is causing russians a little bit of discomfort. While russia china and europe all have their own Gps Satellite networks, most of the world, including ukraine in the Global Economy, still depend on the u. S. Gps network provided by the u. S. Military. Major Lauren Taylor directs the operations here. How accurate is the u. S. System . Within a foot and a half guaranteed. A foot and a half . Yes sir. From suburban drivers to international shipping, to farming, to banking, to Disaster Response to u. S. And allied Military Services on the ground. Each satellite actually broadcast multiple signals, illicitly and get their signals, the mcnuggets their signal interesting lee, the russians in the chinese can use our Gps Satellite as well. I bet you they do. They do. Gps receivers have been found taped don to chinese tanks, but we dont know who they are due to the poor quality of their own system. They have been seeing tipping american Gps Receivers to their tanks and cockpits. Almost none of their vehicles contain scituate nil awareness vehicles are friendly when they found with old pictures of ukraine in. The British Defense secretary says he underscores tremendous russian availability. Under u. S. Law, the gps esteemed cannot be turned off to anyone. 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We are focusing on our common unique simple aim, and we had not time for something else. The reason is simple, on station, their lives depend on each other. Its like body systems, to watching each other, and the second is to help each other to assist each other in the distant tasks. But as russian tanks rolled into ukraine, the russian cosmonauts on the station flew a soviet flag, then the flags of the ukrainian regions under russian control. As the west imposed a high tech embargo on russia, the head of the Russian Space agency, dimitri rogozin, said russia would soon leave the station and build its own. The International Space Station Partnership seemed in danger, then suddenly, in the summer of 22, rogozin was replaced and the head of russias human spaceflight program, a former cosmonaut, highly respected at nasa, suddenly changed course for. How committed is rushed to this international cooperation, to the Space Station, and how long will you be a partner with the United States, with japan, with canada and with the International Partners on this program . As i said more than 40 years, ago we will continue our cooperation as long as i can imagine. That was a bombshell. Russia, saying it will continue to cooperate. I wonder if its part of a concerted effort to reease the tension and she turned down the temperature of it. The answer is yes. The answer he said, is. Yes we understand that it makes sense to keep flying because there is excellent infrastructure that Building Base can be used for for humanity. Off camera, crinkle of said he is not speaking for the kremlin, but most experts believe that russia would not be able to build its own station should leave the iss, which nasa now hopes to keep blind through 23. Can we continue this relationship with russia on the iss indefinitely or at least until 2031 . That is what is amazing. In the civilian Space Program, we can have this professional relationship that goes on without a hitch between russians and americans, space fliers while on the face of the earth, the leader of russia is doing in unconscionable invasions of another sovereign country and its incredible. But the Space Station Science Mission is very different from the Military Operations already underway in space. Zero, ignition. Lift off. Go foul, can go, go. 2022, in california, spacex launched a classified government satellite into orbit. And our oella 87. Speed separation confirmed. Believed to be a top secret stateoftheart Spy Satellite that the pentagon says will support its overhead reconnaissance mission. Within months, russia launched its own spike of placing it in the same orbit and just beneath the u. S. Satellite. Its really irresponsible behavior. In an exclusive interview, Space Command four star general James Dickinson said that russia may be trying to get an up close look at u. S. Spy capabilities. We see that it is in his whole civil orbit to one of our high value assets for the u. S. Government, and so we will continue like we always do to continue that update that and track that and characterize that. Zero degrees, three 60 breeze west. The u. S. Uses a Space Satellite to monitor what its adversaries are doing, this is the newest infrared satellite used to take the heat signatures from any missile or Rocket Launcher anywhere in the world. This is half, scale the real satellite is about the size of a school bus. On this day, closely watching both taiwan and ukraine. We are watching pretty much any country from the world that need to be watching for a interNational Security perspective. And we are capable. International search satellite expert say that it is no coincidence that russia launched its rocket the very moment the u. S. Spy satellite passed over the russian launch site. Markle land brooks tracked Satellite Movements from the netherlands. There is a part of the cold war going on in space, so it is basically part of this is to get on the game that is going on in space. Keeping watch over americas military and Spy Satellites is the top priority at this classified Space Force Ops center. More than 70 of military Satellite Communications come through here, everything from Nuclear Command to control orders, two president ial communications, down to a coast guard cutter, a submarine, even Tactical Units on the ground, how vulnerable are american satellites . The u. S. Says both russia and china have intentionally demonstrated offensive military capabilities in space. Targeting in destroying their old satellites, Scattering Thousands of pieces of debris across low rift org bit, posing a risk to other satellites and forcing the Space Station to adjust its position to avoid getting hit. Indeed, the Space Station was threatened, which, by the way, not only has astronauts but it also has cosmonauts on it. The u. S. His says that when it conducted a similar task in 1889, it was at a low altitude. Heres the difference, the china satellite that they took out was high enough in orbit so that all those pieces are still there. That is creating a debris catastrophe. If you take up a satellite and lower thwarted, the Air Molecules that, trace Air Molecules that are there, it will slow it down and take it out of orbit in due time. Take i so that the low earth orbit hasnt greedy has a self cleaning mechanism. High up, it does not. And so it was, in that sense, irresponsible to do this. Because now, forgive the reference, but it is like being in the pool. We all went swimming in the same pool. The pentagon says that russia has also deployed a nesting satellite, that carries an Offensive Weapon which has already used to test fire a missile or a bullet very close to a top secret americans by satellite. So the russians knew very well that they were observing us. They also knew about their statement to us and theyre threatening to our capabilities. And china has deployed a satellite with it robotic arm that can grab or damage other satellites. The pentagon says that chinas Space Program is now outpacing the u. S. , with more than 60 launches in 2022. Building a remote remodel robotic post on the far side of the moon, invisible to u. S. Satellites, the concern, beijing could one day deploy Offensive Weapons in the space between the moon and earth. An area called cislunar. Because all of the activity that is happening on the moon has to go through sizzler and space. In the coming years, the u. S. Is preparing to launch a satellite into the cislunar, to monitor chinese activity. In 2022 the Colorado Company placed a small satellite called, capstone, into cislunar. They did this to survey the 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 s