Military SATCOM: is UK defence fit for purpose?
15 August 2024
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UK Space Policy
With war shifting to space, the MoD and Space Command must look to secure its assets like Skynet 6 in the new domain. However, these British government institutions must shift their doctrine to account for space as a domain rather than a terrestrial enabler. This is an assessment put forward in a report released from a research fellow in space security, Juliana Suess, with the British think tank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). “I think quite often there’s this misconception that space is a sort of luxury add-on that we can afford once everything else is in order,” Suess told Global Defence Technology not long after the report was published. “That’s not the case. Space is the baseline"