The Invisible War: Anatomy of orbital conflict and the institutional paralysis at its heart

The infrastructure of daily life, and its vulnerabilities Every morning, before anyone has finished breakfast, she has already depended on satellites at least four times. Her phone synchronised its clock through GPS timing signals. The weather forecast she glanced at was computed from data collected by polar-orbiting meteorological satellites. Her contactless payments at the café were authorised through a transaction chain whose timing relies on atomic clocks aboard navigation satellites and satellite communications. And, if she drove to work, her route was calculated by a constellation of mor…