It’s easy to mock Trump’s proposed Space Force, but U.S. commanders are pushing to confront serious new threats in space, writes CNN’s jimsciutto
In May 2014, a small team at the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California noticed something they had never seen before. A Russian rocket had lofted a communications satellite into space, along with what appeared to be the usual collection of space junk—ranging in size from massive spent rocket stages down to chips of paint. But a few weeks later, one piece of that “junk” came to life.
The team at the space operations center watched for the next few days as that seeming piece of space debris...
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