Britain is already using a ground-based system to jam or block foreign satellites and is creating a new military unit to counter threats in orbit, as the head of the Royal Air Force warned that 'space is now a warfighting domain'.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth told the UK Space Power Conference in London on Wednesday that Britain faces 'unprecedented threats' above Earth. 'Space no longer supports operations from the sidelines,' he said. 'It's a domain of direct competition, where our military advantage can be won or lost.'
