In-Orbit Asset Defense To Shape France’s Space Command

September 15, 2020
military satellites
The French government has required the addition of proximity surveillance cameras on the new generation of Syracuse military telecommunications satellites.
Credit: Mirexon
States are increasingly viewing satellites as strategic assets. And the French government believes that some spacecraft are under threat from emerging anti-satellite weapons on the ground as well as from in-orbit hostile spacecraft. A Russian satellite, Luch Olymp, is believed to have neared a...

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