Prospects of Military Space Industry

... marked by the development of a qualitatively new generation of space and rocketry technology. China, which had tapped into the Russian technological resources, launched its first man in orbit in 2003, started an unmanned Lunar research program in 2007, ... ... as a possible destabilizing factor, given the direction in which technology is evolving. Research into the militarization and weaponization of space as a threat to international security specifically focuses on conventional anti-satellite weapons. The ...