The importance of space to armies on the ground has been underscored by the war in Ukranian.
The head of the US Space Force, General Jay Raymond, said in an interview that it was the first war where commercial space capabilities played a significant role. Both sides have become reliant on space in this conflict.
Gen Raymond, whose service is the newest branch of the US armed forces, doesn't give precise details of how the US and its allies have been helping Ukraine.
He gave a clear indication of what it was doing. "We use space to help strike with precision, we use space to give warnings of missiles, of any threat that could come to the United States or to our allies or partners," he said.
More than 5000 satellites are in space.
The US, Russia and China have more military satellites than any other country.
Ukranian has no. It has received a lot of assistance from the West.
Intelligence, surveilance and reconnaissance is the first thing that comes to mind
Commercial satellite imagery has been available to the Ukrainian people.
The director of the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency stated at a recent conference that it had more than doubled the commercial imagery available over Ukraine.
The head of the UK's Space Command says that there's an awful lot of nations with military capabilities in space and that they're looking atUkraine as well.
The initial build-up of Russian forces before the invasion was identified by Space Isr. Russian warships in the Black Sea have been tracked by satellites.
Missiles can be tracked by early warning radar, like the giant one atRAF Fylingdales.
In order to tell the truth about the war, ISR satellites have been essential.
There was a massacre near the capital of Ukraine. He says that Russian claims that the bodies of dead civilians were already on the streets were not true.
Satellite imagery, which can be used to corroborate claims on the ground, has been gained by the media. Identification of mass graves or the attack on a Russian air base in the south of the Ukrainian peninsula are included.
Missiles can be tracked by early warning radar.
Ukrainian volunteers have raised enough money to purchase an entire satellite to help detect Russian targets.
In the first two days of use, the Russian military damages exceeded $16 million, more than the cost of the satellite purchase.
Throughout the war, space has been important.
At the beginning of the war, Russia launched a series of military strikes and cyber- attacks on Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, appealed on social media to get the internet back up in his country.
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.View original tweet on Twitter@elonmusk, while you try to colonize Mars — Russia try to occupy Ukraine! While your rockets successfully land from space — Russian rockets attack Ukrainian civil people! We ask you to provide Ukraine with Starlink stations and to address sane Russians to stand.
— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 26, 2022
Thousands of Starlink internet kits have been sent toUkraine to give it access to the constellation of satellites.
Throughout the war, they've been essential to providing secure communications for the Ukrainian military. I've seen them being used by the Ukrainians.
Russia and Ukraine both use space-based positioning, navigation and timing to conduct precision strikes on targets, with Russia's cruise missiles using its own Glonass positioning satellites to find their targets.
Adding US-supplied precision weapons to its arsenal has been a key factor in its recent advancement.
The Himars rockets, which have a range of up to 80 km and are guided by the gps, have been used to destroy key targets, such as the command centre behind the frontline.
The US has supplied the Ukrainians with more accurate Excalibur shells. There has been a change.
Concerns have been raised that conflict could spread beyond land, sea and air.
Russia and China have both conducted tests to destroy their own satellites, and the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff warned that Russia could attack Western targets in space.
Gen Raymond says there are a lot of threats. Missiles fired from the ground could be used to target satellites according to him.
He says that the US and its allies want to make sure that there's always safe and responsible behavior in space, but that isn't everyone's cup of tea.
The militarisation of space is taking place.
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