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Space command warns of growing orbital threats, debris and PNT vulnerability
Summary
U.S. Space Command and other Pentagon witnesses told the House Strategic Forces Subcommittee that space is an increasingly contested domain, with debris up ~90% since the command's reestablishment, rising cyber and counter-space threats, and a need for PNT resilience and on-orbit logistics.
Witnesses at the Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing said space is central to U.S. military operations and faces accelerating threats requiring both defensive measures and closer integration with commercial partners.
General Steven Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, told the committee that the number of objects in orbit has grown about 90% since Space Command's reestablishment six and a half years ago and called space debris a growing operational concern. "We…
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