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Charting a Path to Space Superiority:The Cross-Domain Imperative

NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) has conducted successful experiments in geosynchronous orbits. (NASA)

By Col Jennifer Reeves, USAF (Ret.)

Space superiority is foundational for operational success in all domains, every service, and in each combatant command, but U.S. space superiority is no longer guaranteed.

China and Russia are fielding increasingly capable counterspace threats against every segment of space systems—orbital, terrestrial, and link—to contest U.S. military and civil space operations.

Addressing these threats requires defensive and offensive counterspace options from all domains—air, land, sea, cyber, and space. All military services must support U.S. Space Command in gaining and maintaining space superiority.

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