Space Force general says US satellites are attacked on daily basis | NY Post

According to a Space Force general, enemies strike American satellites on a daily basis in ways that border on “acts of war,” and the US will lose a space arms race if it does not act. In an op-ed published Tuesday in The Washington Post, Gen. David Thompson said that China and Russia regularly assault US satellites with lasers, radiofrequency jammers, and cyber attacks. Thompson revealed a 2019 event in which a Russian spacecraft came dangerously close to a US “national security satellite,” prompting authorities to assume it was an attack. According to the op-ed, the spacecraft stepped back and deployed a missile. Despite Russia’s threats, the Chinese were “far ahead” of their neighbors when it came to “fielding operational systems at an unbelievable rate,” the official told the Telegraph earlier this month at the Halifax International Security Forum. 

Source: https://nypost.com/2021/12/01/space-force-gen-david-thompson-says-us-satellites-are-attacked-on-daily-basis/