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Report: U.S. Can Down Sino-European Galileo Satellites

October 25, 2004 :: AFP :: News

Missilethreat.com has before noted the potential threat to American strategic interests in space posed by the Chinese-European joint space program called “Galileo.” The program is similar to the American Global Positioning System (GPS). Today, however, the AFP reports that the U.S. may acquire the capability to destroy such satellites should they be used against the United States by, for example, China.
        The Galileo program would consist of a constellation of 30 satellites and ground stations, and could become operational in 2008. The design for the network may have included at one point the capability to interfere with America’s own GPS satellites’ ability to communicate with each other.  (Article)

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