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a whole lot more sucking lights up there. it's getting busy and they are building mysterious space strips. space has always been a contested arena, but what we're seeing right now it brings it to another level, anywhere in the space in the united states, still the most powerful country up there. parts. thanks to this but i do think it's more interesting and china has overtaken restaurant for 2nd place. so it's worth looking up. because what's happening up there impacts what's happening down here. and if something goes wrong in space, it could completely disrupt things on earth. hollywood loves do stay scenario, like with all satellite navigation phase. it's over the top, but actually not by much that we all massively depend on satellites. the human made

machine stead orbit our planets. have you use the navigation up to date? definitely satellites, check the weather. absolutely. satellites transferred money, could be set to lights, or search for something on the internet. pods are satellites but that's just the obvious stuff. satellites, truck earthquakes, forest fires of flooding. they help understand climate change. and they are essential to military operations, as we'll see in a bit. and this is one of the places where satellites are launched into space. this a space launched complex 40 at cape canaveral space for space and similar launch sites exist all over the world. up to 60 new satellites are put into space every week. this any may, some shows how it works up there. fascinating, right? most satellites are in lower orbit around to some further away. right now they are

more than 10000 active satellites in space. look at all those dots. the red ones are satellites and the u. s. has the most more than a 1000, including many commercial ones. china operates more than 700 satellites, and russia has a little over 200. and it will only get busier up there by 2030. that could be $60000.00, such a lights in space. and sometimes they can determine the outcome of a war. on february 24th 2022, russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. that as well. no. but there is a more obscure story that is not as well known from the early hours of that same day. across europe, communication with thousands of wind turbines broke down. they was still operating, but for quite some time it was not possible to control them remotely. what had happened, this satellites case that got hit by a cyber attack?

the us and you accused russia of being behind it. case app provides broadband internet not only for wind turbines, but also, and this is much more important for our story, for ukraine and its military. cyber experts think russia wanted to disrupt the communication of ukrainian forces to blindsided them before invaded. timing is everything. forces checked to conduct a counter space. a top count of space measure. you don't need to be in space flight . it can be, it can be a hack, it can be a cyber attack. this is yanna zeus. she is a research fellow on space security at the royal united states institute and independent think tank in london. you don't need to be sophisticated space power, traction, disrupt space systems. ukraine re gains internet connection at least partially with the help of startling. the satellite communications company owned by 11 musk. we'll

get to him a bit later. so we've just learned about the cyber attacks. they target the data itself that is being transmitted by a satellite and the system that controls the data flow. but there are more ways to disrupt the space operations most involved interfering with the radio signals coming to and from the satellites. specifically those used by navigation satellites, like g p s, the global positioning system. this is a challenge, for example, for aircraft. it's called spoofing. when the attackers send a powerful false signal overwhelming the original one, the airplanes navigation system can then show the wrong location. then there's jamming, interrupting the signal. that means the airplane no longer has navigation, data, spoofing, jamming and cyber attacks are very common. why? because they are relatively cheap and difficult to track. and then there's this.

what's the moment a russian ad to satellite weapon destroys an obsolete soviet satellite cause of most 14 o 8. this was just a test and a demonstration of russian capability. but it's still dangerous. the debris from such an attack can damage or even destroy other satellites and space. this animation shows how that could play out. it does not look good as or not from the international space station. how to take filter because of the dangerous debris from the russian test. they got a warning message waking them up that morning. we were recently informed of a satellite break up and need to have you guys start reviewing the safe haven procedure. so russia has shown it can destroy another country satellite by destroying their own. and so have india, china and the united states, but we have seen no one has physically destroyed somebody

else's satellite deliberate. a scene chang has extensively covered the chinese space program and is now working with the united states institute of peace. inevitably in space, you will start seeing each side trying to disrupt and interfere with the other side, the ability to use space. so now we know some of the attacks taking place. let's have a look at the most important play us up there, and who could win the new space race? let's turn out a rising anxieties over a new arms race in space. so us is again, investing heavily and it space capabilities. no other country, it has more set of lights and 4, but more than 8000, as we mentioned. but did you know, is that more than 6000 of those belong to the space as a company founded by the ritz? it's not under the law. and so the u. s. has the most successful commercial space player in its right? must satellites provide internet broadband to statics?

that's the part of space x that operates the sacraments. they can cover even the most remote corners of the planet, such as deep in the amazon rain forest. that does not come without criticism us lawmakers are worried how much the us military is relying on a movie 1000000000. but yes, that is a different story. space is so important to the us that in 2019 they created a new branch of the us military to deal with it. the united states space for us to be precise. donald trump did when he was president, his vice president made it pretty clear why the us thinks if needs to strengthen its presence in space. the united states faces emerging threats and space for countries like china and russia, and those threats are only growing. and so the message is obvious up there is whether us thinks it can't afford to fall behind. in 2024 space for us had a budget of $29000000000.00 us dollars. nasa, the us civilian space agency,

got another 25000000000 russia is falling behind in space. despite all the headlines. sanctions, corruption and its agent infrastructure have left the space pioneer in the slowly process, which is always the 1st space. how would that be sol? with the split and expect in 1957 and have to see the 2nd place to china, which has been rough, but the building up the space capabilities of the last couple of years. and china has big plans. it's an up and coming power, honors, and, and space. and they brought back lunar box from there. nobody did that before. the people's republic is eager to show off its capabilities. but this is all china has gone in space. it aims to become the leading global space power by 2045. the universe is the limits and china is building the infrastructure like this launch site in the countries north. recently 18 rockets with satellites were

launched here. they are part of a plant. may god consolation of 14000 satellites rivaling eli and musk starting the chinese provide very little hard information. for example, we do not know something as simple as how much this trying to spend on space. i think a sudden the s which is known as piracy aspect to it, us and other western countries say exactly that the time, the lack of transparency on his activities and his accent irresponsibly. so here's another example. china launch satellites, which are edited play equipped with a net and a robotic arm. they say it is to clear to bring. there are no pictures of it to hush hush. but this any ration shows what the robotic arm might look like. but what is it for? one incident from 2022 could provide clues. that's one sign now used to technology

ways not previously seen. a chinese such a light was observed grabbing another old chinese set of lights and pulling it out of its normal orbit. that left us experts where it was a testing a new offensive capability to be used against other countries. they know that in doing this, they are also sending a signal to the west japan. any country that operate space systems, we could really interfere with your spacious stems. if we just sign out repeatedly says it wants to use space peacefully. probably close, basically the amenities when we use the peaceful, literally side of space and stand ready the same commitment to start talking deepened corporation with it and contribute to me and commented here in savannah. come on, try it for frequency. something critics about,

especially because the civilian and military usage seems so intertwined. the heads of key parts of the training space program are military. so yes, if you work with china in space, you are working with the people separation army or working with the attorneys. milton, china, on the other hand, has accused the us of minutes arising space in 2020 to us surveillance set a light approach to chinese satellites. the incidents raised concerns in china will try not caps up or even surpassed the us. to answer this question, we have to finally turn to the mysterious space, or we mentioned them at the very beginning. here's what the us mysterious spaceship looks like. it's called x $37.00, b, it's reusable and unmanned since 2010. it has been going on highly classified mission to orbit where it's allegedly it carries out experiments. china has now

succeeded in building a similar space craft sing along. china has never released pictures of it. so the journey space planes almost certainly was developed in response to the attorney. so the so why are the space planes so important? both countries see the other is mysterious spaceships as a potential threat. the secrecy around x $37.00, b, and st. long has even let to speculation that could be used as whitcomb platforms. so when the new space rate, the us or china, well, 1st off, the space race is a marathon. the trainees are in some ways, very much appear to the united states and arguably, even the head of the west. the west has been in the leads at the time the destiny has put a most. it should be a predominant face problem in 2025. so what's next, more competition or is there another way?

so spaces, are you going to, my to move is going to become busier and more congested space and it's going to be more contested as well as be, see more active and sort of entering space as well. i'm. there's more need for roles than f o. the space is a domain like a dock to come and the high speed it belongs to no country so far they are not many rules and place. the only real one is the outer space treaty of 1967. more than $100.00 countries have signed it, including the us, china and russia. but the treaty is old and only loosely regulates activities in space, advance nuclear weapons up there, but has nothing on to satellite weapons. for example. no one wants to really give up. i don't think we're really going to see any real progress on this in the next. ready the next couple of years, what happens a space is a reflection,

what happens? so competition, it is with the networks of satellites and the weapons to destroy them. as long as china and the us arrivals under space is just another arena. ready the don'ts of dedication, a ballet scrolling through gives children strength unto the shaft to dreams. what now from the law always cheated cannabis farmers and submerged what happens when the tide no longer receive? the

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