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

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

26 May 26
Posted by: Paul Szymanski & Calogero Bonasia
25 minutes, 19 seconds read
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The expert authors investigate the history of 21st century space warfare, a legally undefined arena for grey zone conflict. A 25 minute read.

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 payment 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 more…

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