China has been urged to build dual-use satellite application systems to increase the military use of commercial technology.<\/p>\n
The appeal by researchers from a university affiliated with the Central Military Commission \u2013 China\u2019s highest command body \u2013 comes as space technology developed by private firms is increasingly being used for military purposes.<\/p>\n
For example, the US military has stepped up its use of technology from Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink network and other commercial satellite companies, carrying out tests to help it build a more advanced and efficient command system.<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s company SpaceX recently applied to launch one million satellites to power artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, a move that would drastically expand its Starlink network.<\/p>\n
The company already has around 10,000 satellites in orbit and the Chinese government recently suggested it was responsible for congestion and an increased risk of collisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs commercial satellites become more deeply involved in modern warfare, the traditional boundaries between military and civilian uses are increasingly blurred. Space is rapidly shifting from a domain of strategic deterrence towards one of tactical operations,\u201d an article by researchers from China\u2019s National University of Defence Technology said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has been urged to build dual-use satellite application systems to increase the military use of commercial technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[554,5713,157373,891,157369,995,157372,90,416,412,9676,157370,157371,56,29292,54,158,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-429612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-central-military-commission","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-china-defence-conversion","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-national-university-of-defence-technology","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-spacex","18":"tag-starlink","19":"tag-state-administration-for-science","20":"tag-technology-and-industry-for-national-defence","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-un","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}