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Pentagon has warned of impending attacks on US satellites by Russia and China.
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QuoteLt. Gen. David Buck, commander of Joint Functional Component for Space, testified alongside Hyten.
"Simply stated, there isn't a single aspect of our space architecture, to include the ground architecture, that isn't at risk," Buck declared. "Russia views US dependency on space as an exploitable vulnerability and they are taking deliberate actions to strengthen their counter-space capabilities."
Buck also sounded alarms over China's creation of its Strategic Support Forces, a space warfare and cyber warfare unit.
In this photo released by the Xinhua news agency, an orbiter is launched by a Long March-3III carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Sunday Jan. 17, 2010
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"China is developing, and has demonstrated, a wide range of counter-space technologies to include direct-ascent, kinetic-kill vehicles, co-orbital technologies that can disable or destroy a satellite, terrestrially-based communications jammers, and lasers that can blind or disable satellites," he said.
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