COMMERCIAL SATELLITE USE CATALYZES NUCLEAR-ARMED STATES TO COMBAT A Wargame After-Action Report
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Date
2023 October
Summary
Just how sustainable is it for us to continue our current relaxed approach to the military exploitation of commercial space? To find out, NPEC designed and conducted a wargame this summer tailored to this purpose. The game’s play begins in 2027. India contracts with Maxar, a United States commercial imagery satellite company to buy a controlling 51 percent interest in this system’s three-satellite, sun-synchronous system (a constellation that is eventually to be filled out to six-satellites). Washington backs the sale and not only buys New Delhi free mobile ground stations, but blesses India controlling a 51 percent share, and places United States military payloads on the system to demonstrate the significance of this United States-Indian space collaboration.
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COMMERCIAL SATELLITE USE CATALYZES NUCLEAR-ARMED STATES TO COMBAT A Wargame After-Action Report, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, https://wargaming.hoover.org/view/ark:/54723/h3br8mr4c