"Traditionally satellites weren't designed to fight, and they weren't designed to protect themselves in a fight," said Clinton Clark, the chief growth officer of ExoAnalytic Solutions, a company that monitors activity in space. "That is all changing now."
Countries such as China are maneuvering their spacecraft in ways "that may enable them in a conflict to try to derive a position of advantage relative to the United States," Gen. Stephen Whiting, the commander of U.S. Space Command, said in an interview with The Washington Post. "So we want to make sure that we stay ahead as the world's leading space power, and that we develop our own maneuver capabilities to remain in a position of advantage and to defend ourselves."…
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