Given the choice between the loss of thousands, hundreds, or even tens of lives, versus the disabling or destruction of an unmanned space system, no national leader would agree that preservation of the space system was the higher good.
The unavoidable answer is, of course they will act. In the not-so-distant future, some country’s leader will be forced to answer the following question – will they passively allow the citizens and military forces of their nation to be targeted, with impunity, by the space forces of an adversary nation? Will they countenance thousands of sailors on a major surface combatant being killed by a missile strike guided to its target by an overhead satellite and be forced to accept that as a consequence of agreeing to shun any and all attacks on space systems? Or will they decide to act? Abdul Kalam Island, in Odisha on March 27, 2019. By Doug Loverro The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully launched the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) Interceptor missile, in an Anti-Satellite (A-SAT) missile test Mission Shakti engaging an Indian orbiting target satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in a Hit to Kill mode from the Dr.
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