{"id":772177,"date":"2026-09-16T05:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:22:13","slug":"watch-warning-of-space-arms-race-as-us-confirms-weapons-in-earths-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772177\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Warning of space arms race as US confirms weapons in Earth&#8217;s orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth&#8217;s orbit, the first time it has acknowledged such offensive capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russia and China responded by warning of an arms race in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, according to the BBC&#8217;s Defence correspondent Jonathan Beale, this is already happening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Details of how the weapon operates have not been disclosed by US officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US has confirmed it deployed a space weapon in Earth&#8217;s orbit, the first time it has acknowledged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772177","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=772177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}