The US Department of Defense is planning to open a new space-war center in order to fend off attacks on US military and government satellites.

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According to Defense One, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work spoke at the GEOINT intelligence conference about the plans. "The ugly reality that we must now all face is that if an adversary were able to take space away from us, our ability to project decisive power across transoceanic distances and overmatch adversaries in theaters once we get there… would be critically weakened."The new center is scheduled to open within six months, and it will be backing up the Joint Space Operations Center in California by helping the military coordinate preparations for and responses to any attack.In other military space news, SpaceX has recently been certified by the US Air Force for national security missions.

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