We're now moving into an era where we have to move faster you know those potential adversaries out there like China are moving very quickly. Technology allows us to build them a little more cheaply and the way people are operating rather than building a handful of very large very capable very expensive satellites we're now talking about building hundreds and perhaps thousands of smaller cheaper satellites that can do the same thing. In access to space as you're saying is really easy it used to be pretty hard now you can pay you long must to put a satellite up there for an amount of money that a midsize company can afford. It's still very complicated but you're right compared to the past when it took superpowers to
The US Space Force, established in 2019, is the first new branch of the military to be created since 1947, and its mission is vast: defend US interests in space. But what exactly is the Space Force? And what does defending US interests in space mean or look like practically?
As the nearly $900 billion defense spending bill winds its way through Congress, Wes went to the Pentagon to sit down with General David Thompson, the Vice Chief of Space Operations to learn what US interests in space are, and how the branch is developing. Bloomberg cybersecurity reporter Katrina Manson joins later to describe her visit to Space Command in Colorado and the importance of the US keeping a watch on its adversaries in zero gravity.
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