{"id":97278,"date":"2025-07-27T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97278\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:41:09","slug":"how-us-space-command-is-preparing-for-satellite-on-satellite-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97278\/","title":{"rendered":"How US Space Command is preparing for satellite-on-satellite combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">TOWARDS THE end of last year a pair of military satellites, one American and the other French, prepared for a delicate orbital minuet. They were about to conduct a so-called rendezvous and proximity operation (RPO)\u2014in which one or more satellites approach another to inspect or manipulate it\u2014near an enemy satellite. They have not said which, but it is not hard to guess. \u201cThe French have talked about Russian manoeuvres [near French satellites] over the years,\u201d says General Stephen Whiting, speaking at the headquarters of US Space Command in Colorado Springs. \u201cAnd so\u2026we demonstrated that we could both manoeuvre satellites near each other and near other countries\u2019 satellites in a way that signalled our ability to operate well together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWARDS THE end of last year a pair of military satellites, one American and the other French, prepared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-97278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}