{"id":663038,"date":"2026-06-28T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663038\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:44:10","slug":"china-leads-in-gps-style-reconnaissance-and-anti-satellite-abilities-us-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/663038\/","title":{"rendered":"China leads in GPS-style, reconnaissance and anti-satellite abilities, US report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has leapfrogged the United States in a few mighty important sectors of space technologies: GPS-style navigation<\/a>, spy-in-the-sky reconnaissance and even the ability to knock satellites out of orbit, according to a report from a US think tank.<\/p>\n

The report from the Washington-based Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said China had rapidly built a powerful commercial space sector under strong state backing and was narrowing the innovation gap with the US.<\/p>\n

The warning comes as analysts project the global space economy could exceed US$1 trillion within the next decade. According to the report, China has already surpassed Russia as America\u2019s main competitor in space.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s space sector<\/a> has gone from a nascent, slow-moving industry mostly led by state-owned enterprises to a robust, innovative commercial sector that trails only the United States in the global market,\u201d said Ellis Scherer, an ITIF space policy analyst and author of the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost commercial space capabilities are dual use, with militaries relying most heavily on [positioning, navigation and timing], remote sensing, [low Earth orbit] broadband and anti-satellite weaponry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has leapfrogged the United States in a few mighty important sectors of space technologies: GPS-style navigation, spy-in-the-sky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[222250,222246,41006,891,39158,222247,11134,222248,407,222249,26714,11132,90,416,157916,412,56,54,158,55],"class_list":["post-663038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-amazons-project-kuiper","tag-beidou-navigation-system","tag-cas-space","tag-china","tag-falcon","tag-gaofen-earth-observation-satellites","tag-guowang","tag-information-technology-and-innovation-foundation","tag-international-space-station","tag-jilin-1","tag-landspace","tag-qianfan","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-epoch","tag-spacex","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663038","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=663038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}