The U.S. military is investing in new technologies to build large structures on the lunar surface. It’s designing a spy satellite to orbit the moon. And it just announced plans for a surveillance network — what it calls a “highway patrol.”
During the Cold War, the Army and Air Force studied the potential for a lunar outpost as well as a “Lunar Based Earth Bombardment System.” They even looked at conducting nuclear tests on the moon.
Shaw, when he was an Air Force major more than two decades ago, argued that NASA was not best-suited to lead the exploration of deep space. “Throughout history,” he wrote, “maritime merchant traffic operated with more confidence knowing a navy was close by to keep things safe and transparent. Similar conditions must be fostered for safeguarding space commerce.”There are deepening disagreements about whether such stated ambitions should be central to military planning.
“I think sometimes that takes away from the real focus of what militaries are when it comes to space and that is the near-Earth orbits and the assets there that actually support military operation on the ground,” Stickings said, “whether that is through GPS or communications or Earth observation satellites.”There are international limits on what operations militaries can conduct in cislunar space.
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