How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space

Photo caption: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6) stands ready on May 15, 2020, for a scheduled launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo credit: Paul Hennessy / NurPhoto via Getty Images. Article by Tim Fernholz. Vox – updated February 15, 2024.

Capt. Even Rogers had the best job at the first large-scale war games focused on space, conducted by the US military in 2017. He got to be the bad guy. Most of the military’s work in space had been about maintaining infrastructure in orbit, not reacting to attacks in real time. Worried about deepening tensions with Russia and China in 2016, Congress had asked the Pentagon to up its readiness. […]

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