ASAT 중국은 우주 공중전을 연습중

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마이크 개틀린 미 우주군 부사령관이 3월 18일 매칼리즈 & 어소시에이츠 연례 국방프로그램 컨퍼런스에서 중국이 실험용 위성을 이용해 우주에서 공중전을 연습중이라고 밝혔습니다. 

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Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee about joint force readiness, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., March 12, 2025. U.S. Air Force photo by Eric Dietrich

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China Practicing ‘Dogfighting in Space,’ US Space Force Says

March 18, 2025 | By Chris Gordon

China has been using experimental satellites to practice “dogfighting” in space, the U.S. Space Force’s No. 2 officer said March 18, the latest in a series of revelations as to how America’s adversaries may seek to disrupt U.S. space operations in the future.

The Chinese maneuvers include a series of what the Space Force calls “proximity operations” that were conducted in low-Earth orbit last year.

Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael A. Guetlein said the operations involved “five different objects in space maneuvering in and out and around each other in synchronicity, and in control.”

“That’s what we call dogfighting in space,” he said at the McAleese and Associates annual Defense Programs Conference. “They are practicing tactics, techniques, and procedures to do on-orbit space operations from one satellite to another.”

Though Guetlein did not identify the country that conducted the maneuvers at the conference, a Space Force spokesperson later said that he was referencing Chinese activities which were documented in commercially available information.

“China conducted a series of proximity operations in 2024 involving three Shiyan-24C experimental satellites and two Chinese experimental space objects, the Shijian-6 05A/B. These maneuvers were observed in low earth orbit,” the spokesperson told Air & Space Forces Magazine.

Guetlein said these activities by U.S. adversaries explain why the Space Force needs to transform itself into a service that no longer treats space as a benign environment and are validation for its existence and funding, which at $30 billion a year is the lowest budget among the DOD’s military services. 

At the AFA Warfare Symposium on March 3, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said “space superiority” was now a “core function” for the service.

“Space superiority is the reason that we exist as a service, and the vagaries of warfighting must inform everything we do if we are going to succeed,” Saltzman said.

But what worries Guetlein the most is what might be to come.

“Unfortunately, our current adversaries are willing to go against international norms of behavior, go against that gentleman’s agreement, and they’re willing to do it in very unsafe and unprofessional manners,” Guetlein said. “The new norms of behavior in space, unfortunately, within the past three years: jamming, spoofing, dazzling … cyber hacks are happening all around us on a day-to-day basis.”

China is rapidly expanding its counterspace capabilities, including ground-launched anti-satellite missiles, as shown in this illustration. Mike Tsukamoto/staff and Pixabay

The new capabilities adversaries are seeking include Russia’s effort to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite weapon, for example. Adversaries already have the “ability to laze our current … intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites,” Guetlein said.

“We’ve got to change our culture. We’ve got to change our training. We got to change our [tactics, techniques, and procedures], our [concept of operations]. We’ve got to change our kit going forward. Because this is the most complex and challenging strategic environment that we have seen in a long time—if not ever.” Guetlein said. “We need a credible fighting force, and we need the capability to deter and, if necessary, defeat aggression. That is the inflection point that you’re seeing today.”

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“five different objects in space manoeuvring in and out and around each other in synchrony and in control”,

“That’s what we call dogfighting in space. They are practising tactics, techniques and procedures to do on-orbit space operations from one satellite to another,”

정황을 상상해보면, 표적기가 우회, 회피 기동하고 추적기가 차단, 포위 기동한 정황아닐까요? 흡사 축구의 드리블 연습하듯..... 그런 정황이 맞다면 소형위성이 직접타격하는 방식이 아닐까요?

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좀 더 자세한 정황이 공개됐으면 좋겠습니다. 5대가 동원됐으면 말씀대로 표적 위성 몰이사냥을 연습한 것 같긴 한데, 자살박치기일지 뭔가 발사체를 쏘아대는 방식일지...

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일본 가와사키중공업의 우주 쓰레기 청소 위성이 '도망가는 쓰레기'를 쫒아갈 수 있다면 이것도 우주 공중전이겠네요 ㅋ

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