Is There a War in Space?

A war in space could, at the low end, disrupt those services. At the high end, it could be destroyed completely and potentially for a very, very long time. Debris lasts in space forever. So I don't even want to put a year on it. It would be decades. And what would it mean for regular people down on Earth if we did lose some of those capabilities in space? Today, especially in modern American life, we benefit from that timing signal from the GPS constellation. That timing signal runs everything from the power that we're enjoying to the blue dot on your cell phone.