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MILITARIZATION SPACE [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Defence Planning and Military Doctrine
  • Surveillance, Detection and Reconnaissance (Military)
CONT

Militarization of space refers to activities and systems in space used to conduct and support military operations...

Key term(s)
  • militarisation of outer space
  • militarisation of space
  • space militarisation
  • militarisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrine militaire et planification de défense
  • Surveillance, détection et reconnaissance (Militaire)
DEF

Utilisation ou mise en place de dispositifs spatiaux qui, sans être des armes, sont destinés à soutenir des opérations militaires.

OBS

La militarisation de l'espace met en œuvre des moyens relevant des télécommunications, de l'observation, du renseignement, de la navigation, etc.

OBS

militarisation de l'espace; militarisation : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 26 janvier 2025.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Defence Planning and Military Doctrine
  • Space Warfare
CONT

Space weaponization is a subset of space militarization. If one envisions a natural sequence ranging from space systems not being used for any militarily useful purposes at all, to satellites providing services to support terrestrial military operations..., to satellites being integral parts of terrestrial weapon systems..., and finally to weapons themselves being deployed in space, weaponization occurs when the upper range of this sequence is reached. At its most extreme, space weaponization would include the deployment in quantity of a full range of space weapons, including satellite-based systems for ballistic missile defense(BMD), ground-and space-based anti-satellite weapons(ASATs), and a variety of space-to-Earth weapons(STEW), and these would play a central role in any type of military operations conducted by their owners.

Key term(s)
  • weaponisation of outer space
  • weaponisation of space
  • space weaponisation
  • weaponisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrine militaire et planification de défense
  • Guerre spatiale
DEF

Mise en place d'armes dans l'espace.

OBS

arsenalisation de l'espace; arsenalisation : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 26 janvier 2025.

Spanish

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