The military's role in deterring attacks on commercial satellites is set to be strengthened in the first broad overhaul of U.S. space policy in a decade, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
The policy would remove any ambiguity about official responsibility for figuring out who was behind any attack on U.S.-owned commercial satellites, said Air Force Col. Anthony Russo, head of the U.S. Strategic Command's space division.
Russo said recent drafts of the policy, which he said could be announced within months, did not rule out weapons in space.
Instead, they speak of taking "all appropriate measures to defend our space assets," he told a reporters at a forum organized by the private Center for Media and Security.
"any attack on U.S.-owned commercial satellites"??
Attack by whom? Obviously we're not talking alien attacks--but what the hell are we talking about here? Two of the last three paragraphs in the article actually refer to the kinds of attacks that American satellites are suffering from:
Tens of thousands of incidents involving possible attacks on satellites are reported each year, he said. But only a handful of these turn out to be deliberate efforts to pirate services or interfere for political reasons.
"I see that trend increasing," Russo said, adding that he expected the U.S. military to get more resources to carry out the projected space-mission expansion.
So, we've got to expand the military into space because of a handful of actual attacks?
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