Space has enormous potential for not only the development of science and technology, but also for economic growth. However, China, which is pursuing a strategy of asymmetric warfare, has set foot into this “sanctuary,” and forced the United States to recognize the vulnerability of its space system. and the Soviet Union refrained from these kinds of tests because careless physical attacks could have a significant impact on all operations in space. Although space was used militarily for decades during the Cold War, both the U.S. This test created a large amount of space debris and was met with intense international criticism. China needed to build asymmetric capabilities in space and cyberspaceas a response to an expected contingency in the Taiwan Strait. In January 2007, China carried out an anti-satellite destruction test using anti-satellite weapons (ASAT), triggering the development of space as a warfighting domain in the post-Cold War era.
In response to these developments, France established the Space Command in September 2019, and the U.S. Russia also set up an independent Space Force in the same year. In its reorganization in 2015, the Chinese PLA established the Strategic Support Force, which handles the fields of space, cyber, and the electromagnetic spectrum. India conducted an anti-satellite weapons test in March 2019 and Iran launched its first military satellite launch in April. More recently, a growing number of countries are pursuing military uses of space. In 2018, the United States issued its first National Space Strategy, which recognized that its adversaries had turned space into a warfighting domain.Military use of space began with the Sputnik crisis in October 1957, which initiated the space race between the U.S.
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