In his Los Angeles remarks, Carlson raised a flag about the security of US space capabilities. He emphasized that more needs to be done to limit the exposure to risk of US space systems and technologies. Space assets are critical to military efforts as a whole, he said, “and the bad guys know that.” Carlson did not elaborate, but it is known that several countries are developing capabilities, which, in time, could threaten the security of US space activities.
The Space Force is playing midwife to a new ecosystem of commercial satellite constellations providing alternatives to the service’s own Global Positioning Service from much closer to the Earth, making their signals more accurate and harder to jam.
