Value of Space Control and How we Can Achieve It

摘要

This report provides a discussion on the value of space control and whether ornot we can achieve it. Space control encompasses offensive and defensive concepts that include surveillance and warning, survivability, launch and negation. In short, space control means more than negation or anti-satellite capabilities. The surveillance, survivability and launch legs of, the definition are fairly robust and will not be dealt with to any degree of detail in this paper. However, the negation aspect is the only leg of this space control definition that has not achieved fruition. Additionally, it has been the subject of great debate since the early 1970's. In a rapidly changing world, the debate over the need for an anti-satellite capability is sure to be a debate worth observing and participating in.