The event in Colorado Springs was attended by representatives from Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Also taking part were various US government agencies, including the defence threat reduction agency and Nasa.<\/p>\n
The military news site Defence One said: \u201cWhile Whiting and US Space Command did not disclose the wargame\u2019s findings, open-source reports have detailed the widespread devastation such a weapon would cause to all satellites in orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chief Master Sgt Jacob Simmons of the US Space Command told an earlier wargame session: \u201cSpace is no longer a supporting supplement\u2026it is a central system woven into the web of our modern life, from markets to medicine, from agriculture to aviation, from navigation to notification, we are all synchronised with space.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIf and when space is struck down, all of society is struck down.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wargames come amid a growing scramble for dominance or control of space involving the US, Russia and China.<\/p>\n
In May 2024, the US said it had detected what it believed was a new device \u2013 dubbed Cosmos 2576 \u2013 that had been launched from western Russia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have observed nominal activity and assess it is likely a counter-space weapon presumably capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit,\u201d said a spokesperson for the US Space Command.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia deployed this new counter-space weapon into the same orbit as a US government satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event in Colorado Springs was attended by representatives from Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Also taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,6669,484,6670,330,5,6,333,5552],"class_list":{"0":"post-14502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-nuclear-weapons","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-standard","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-us-content","16":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116406147000590788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}