National Security Space Defense and Protection: Public Report by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conflict and Security Issues: Prevention, Security and Response, Conflict and Security Issues: Military and Defense Studies
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2016-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Space Services: Classifying What Is at Stake

There are numerous ways to categorize the thousands of artificial satellites in orbit today. Often this categorization is done by altitude, orbit, size, or whether they are put to commercial or military use. As technology proceeds, many of these categories are becoming blurred. A visible example is the increased emphasis in national security space policy on military-commercial partnerships (e.g., for commercial supply of some military communications). For the purpose of considering space systems in the national security context, it may be most valuable to classify them by their use—that is, not to consider systems solely in terms of the platform or other technical details, but in terms of the types of information services they provide. This structure also facilitates assessment of the implications to national security of their loss. Following the 2006 RAND National Security Space Launch Report schema, the services provided by U.S. satellite systems are categorized into three types most important to military and national security issues: communications; PNT; and Earth observation and surveillance.10

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