Challenges to the United States in Space

Abstract

Preserving key U.S. national security and economic interests is widely seen to depend on assured access and widespread use of space-based systems. Satellites are as essential to military and intelligence operations as fighters, warships, and combat vehicles. Major portions of the global economy rely on space systems; they facilitate the entire global financial system, stock markets, communications, agriculture, and transportation, as well as other commercial and civil activities. A June 2015 Department of Homeland Security report estimated $1.6 trillion of annual U.S. business revenues depend on satellites. Space systems are also a permanent and seamless component in the nation's critical infrastructure, as vital as the electrical grid or the highway system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 27, 2020
Accession Number
AD1169933

Entities

People

  • Stephen M. Mccall

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Earth Orbits
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Law
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • National Security
  • Orbits
  • Radio Frequency
  • Security
  • Space Force
  • Space Systems
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • International Relations and European Studies
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Space