The New Scientist points out the the anti-satellite weapon the Chinese launched into orbit is easy enough to build any country can do it. Space effectively has just become militarized.
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” Space effectively has just become militarized. ”
If only that were true.
The race-to-space was, from the very beginning, primarily a military exercise.
The majority of the tech currently in orbit was designed for the military, and paid for ( via taxpayers of course ) from ‘defence’ budgets. And a lot of it’s being used right now – on a daily basis – to carry our military actions on behalf of the powers which put it there.