China\u2019s official military newspaper has warned of an arms race over low-Earth satellites, citing developments such as SpaceX\u2019s latest contract with the US Space Force.<\/p>\n
Low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellations typically operate at 300km to 1,500km (185-930 miles) above the Earth and are becoming increasingly important in areas such as communications and satellite navigation.<\/p>\n
But in a series of articles covering a full page on Monday, PLA Daily warned: \u201cThe era of the militarised application of low-orbit constellations is arriving at an accelerated pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
It said the \u201cstrategic value of space\u201d was becoming \u201cunprecedentedly prominent\u201d, covering areas such as satellite networks, orbital competition and spectrum seizure.<\/p>\n
One article, written by Feng Songjiang and Wang Xiaoyan, from the Space Security Research Centre, said: \u201cRelying on its first-mover technological advantages and mature commercial ecosystem, the United States has continued to increase the militarised application of low-orbit constellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s official military newspaper has warned of an arms race over low-Earth satellites, citing developments such as SpaceX\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[607,516,2487,1496,43590,62783,1759,111,139,69,19906,8105,147,136103,392,1503,1504,3461,1430,68700,241263],"class_list":["post-479548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-china","tag-elon-musk","tag-european-union","tag-guowang","tag-international-telecommunication-union","tag-iris","tag-japan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pla-daily","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-shanghai-spacecom-satellite-technology","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-space-force","tag-war-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}