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The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) wants $10 million to investigate space-based weapons over the next year. As Pentagon budgets go, it is small change, but it is also a red flag for critics who worry that such plans could turn space into a shooting gallery.

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Israel's military has been concerned that Iran could obtain anti-satellite capabilities.
Senior military officers and officials have raised the prospect that Iran could obtain anti-satellite capabilities from its allies. The officers cited the successful anti-satellite test by China, a leading ally of Iran, in January 2007.

"We are well aware of attempts by hostile states, especially by Iran, to acquire an independent space-launch capability. This type of capability, which allows for rapid launching according to urgent operational needs, could enable us to deal with future, extreme scenarios in which our space assets could become paralysed by enemy action" - Amir Peretz, Israeli Defence Minister.

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Bush declared he will "enable unhindered US operations in and through space to defend our interests there." (Mars is obviously a Republican planet.) On his orders the Pentagon is to "develop capabilities, plans, and options to ensure freedom of action in space, and, if directed, deny such freedom of action to adversaries." This formalized the Bush administration's intention to treat space as a new and more exciting battlefield. It is a blunt warning to any country with satellites that they had better watch out, because Bush baby is coming to get you if you dare exercise "freedom of action". And make no mistake : it will be Bush and his power-crazed gnomes who will define exactly what "freedom of action" means.

One self-awarded Bush freedom in space is the Pentagon's "Rods from God" program which involves satellites armed with tungsten rods measuring about one foot by twenty feet that can be fired earthwards at over 6000 mph to any target of White House choosing.

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An ideal aerospace command would provide the Indian armed forces the capability to monitor a vast region from outer space — the Strait of Hormuz in the West to the Strait of Malacca in the east, China in the north and the Indian Ocean in the south.
It would be an integration of various components of the air force, Indian satellites, radars, communications systems, fighter aircraft and helicopters. The aim: to thwart hostile intrusions from space and missiles launched by military jets or from land and ocean (submarines).
The Indian aerospace command would not be quite as sophisticated as the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), a US-Canadian command created in 1958 to guard against Soviet bombers (of the Cold War era), or Russia’s aerospace command called the ‘Strategic Rocket Forces’.

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An aerospace command will be established soon to exploit outer space and to control space-based assets, Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi said.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is in the process of establishing this command by integrating its capabilities.

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India is planning to set up a Strategic Aerospace Command to prepare for star wars and use space for network-centric warfare in future.
 Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Marshall S. P. Tyagi said an Aerospace Command has to be established to lay the groundwork to develop capability to degrade space weapons.

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India and Russia on Thursday categorically opposed weaponisation of outer space, close on the heels of China testing an anti-satellite missile system.

"Our fundamental position is that our space should be absolutely weapons free. China is not the first country to conduct such tests" - Russian President Vladimir Putin, addressing a joint press conference with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

He was replying to a question on the test launch of an anti-missile system by Beijing recently.
Putin recalled that such tests were conducted in 1980s and there were indications that the US was planning to weaponise space. This should not happen, he said.

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The first U.S. National Space Policy amendment in a decade was made with no public announcement Oct. 6 and ensures "freedom of action in space" for the superpower, the Washing Post reported Wednesday.
The new policy will oppose any future arms-control agreements that would limit U.S. space weapon options. It would also deny access to space for anyone "hostile to U.S. interests."

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President Bush has authorized a sweeping new national space policy, green-lighting an overarching national policy that governs the conduct of America’s space activities.

The new policy supports not only an exploration agenda for the moon, Mars and beyond, but also responds to the post-9/11 world of terrorist actions, such as the need for intelligence-gathering internal and external to the United States.
U.S. assets must be unhindered in carrying out their space duties, the Bush space policy says, stressing that “freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.”
Without fanfare, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, on Friday rolled out the National Space Policy — a document that supersedes a September 1996 version of the directive. Bush signed off on the new space policy on Aug. 31.

A 10-page unclassified version of the U.S. National Space Policy was posted Friday on the OSTP Web site. (PDF)

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China has beamed a ground-based laser at American spy satellites over its territory, the US defence department has said.

The department would not say which satellite was involved or when it occurred.

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