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Russia Today
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Five Eyes now getting sensitive space intel
The US has begun sharing its 'most sensitive' military intelligence on China's and Russia's space operations with the UK and other members of The Five Eyes (FVEY) global intelligence group, The Times has reported, citing a senior commander within the US Space Force. Until this month, the work of Space Delta 9, a unit focused on America's orbital warfare, was largely meant only for US officials with top-secret security clearance. However, in a move that a Space Delta 9 spokesman described to The Times as 'momentous,' British military chiefs have been allowed to observe operations at the unit's base in Colorado. The other Five Eyes members, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, have also been allowed access to the highest levels of US space intelligence, the British daily reported on Wednesday. The Times attributed the development to Beijing and Moscow allegedly developing 'new space capabilities,' such as dual use satellites, and orbiters designed for both civilian and military applications. 'We have to be ready for that fight that nobody wants to have,' Colonel Ramsey Horn, commander of Space Delta 9, told the paper. He went on to claim that the unit is 'more ready' than ever to engage in combat in space. The US Defense Department has accused China of stockpiling anti-satellite weapons, raising concerns over what it describes as Beijing's increasing emphasis on space warfare. Chinese officials have rejected the claims and argued that militarization of space by the US poses the real threat to global stability. Washington has made similar allegations against Russia, suggesting that Moscow may possess covert anti-satellite systems, potentially with nuclear capabilities. The Kremlin has dismissed the claims as baseless attempts to deflect attention from America's own military ambitions in space. Both Russia and China have consistently stated their opposition to the weaponization of space and have advocated for keeping space a domain reserved for peaceful use.
Russia Today
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Five Eyes get sensitive space intel
The US has begun sharing its 'most sensitive' military intelligence on China's and Russia's space operations with the UK and other members of The Five Eyes (FVEY) global intelligence group, The Times has reported, citing a senior commander within the US Space Force. Until this month, the work of Space Delta 9, a unit focused on America's orbital warfare, was largely meant only for US officials with top-secret security clearance. However, in a move that a Space Delta 9 spokesman described to The Times as 'momentous,' British military chiefs have been allowed to observe operations at the unit's base in Colorado. The other Five Eyes members, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, have also been allowed access to the highest levels of US space intelligence, the British daily reported on Wednesday. The Times attributed the development to Beijing and Moscow allegedly developing 'new space capabilities,' such as dual use satellites, and orbiters designed for both civilian and military applications. 'We have to be ready for that fight that nobody wants to have,' Colonel Ramsey Horn, commander of Space Delta 9, told the paper. He went on to claim that the unit is 'more ready' than ever to engage in combat in space. The US Defense Department has accused China of stockpiling anti-satellite weapons, raising concerns over what it describes as Beijing's increasing emphasis on space warfare. Chinese officials have rejected the claims and argued that militarization of space by the US poses the real threat to global stability. Washington has made similar allegations against Russia, suggesting that Moscow may possess covert anti-satellite systems, potentially with nuclear capabilities. The Kremlin has dismissed the claims as baseless attempts to deflect attention from America's own military ambitions in space. Both Russia and China have consistently stated their opposition to the weaponization of space and have advocated for keeping space a domain reserved for peaceful use.
Telegraph
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
UK military given intelligence on Chinese space weapons
The US has begun sharing rare intelligence on Chinese space weapons with British military chiefs. Secret imagery of satellites has been passed on by the US Space Force, as it seeks allies amid growing fears over a potential space war with Beijing. Although US officials declined to say which nations the images focused on, they reiterated that the greatest space threats to the West were from China and Russia. The US Space Force's geosynchronous space situational awareness programme (GSSAP) began in 2019 and involves the use of satellites to take close-up pictures of other satellites and weapons in space. Col Ramsey Horn, Commander of Space Delta 9, which is tasked with defeating orbital threats, said on a visit to the UK: 'The PRC [People's Republic of China] is our top concern right now.' He also revealed that Air Marshal Johnny Stringer, the UK strategic command attache based in Washington, had recently been invited to Colorado to see GSSAP in action. Col Horn added: ' China has developed lasers that are capable of dazzling as well as destructive capabilities.' He said the country had high-power microwave systems that could disable a satellite, and that while there had not been any direct engagement, the US was prepared to fight China. 'We have to be ready for that fight that nobody wants to have,' he added. Last year, US defence sources warned that China was developing anti-satellite weapons as part of a 'breathtaking' military expansion. Gen Stephen Whiting, the head of the US Space Command, said Beijing had 'tripled the number of intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance satellites on orbit' in just six years. Experts have also claimed that Beijing has been misusing anti-satellite weapons.
