在《Hidden Forces》第六集中，主持人Demetri Kofinas与Joan Johnson-Freese教授探讨了太空战争和太空武器化的问题。Joan Freese是美国海军战争学院的国防安全事务教授，她在太空战争和太空安全领域有多部著作，并在本期节目中深入剖析了美国、中国和俄罗斯在太空战争领域的活动，以及反卫星技术带来的深远影响。

🛰️ Joan Johnson-Freese教授，美国海军战争学院的国防安全事务专家，她在太空战争和太空安全领域具有深厚的学术背景和丰富的实践经验。她曾在国家安全委员会、亚洲太平洋安全研究中心和空中战争学院任职，强调空、天、网络空间在联合行动中的应用。

🌌 本期节目不仅讨论了低地球轨道（LEO）的国际空间站，还涉及到了地球同步轨道（GEO），超过地球赤道上空26,000英里的高轨道，那里运行着我们最宝贵也最脆弱的卫星。

🌠 节目中提到，美国、中国和俄罗斯在太空战争领域的活动日益增加，包括反卫星武器（ASAT）、动能轨道打击和动能杀伤车辆的研究与开发。这些技术的任何显著使用都可能造成地球轨道上形成厚厚的太空碎片墙，从而阻碍未来数代人进入太空。

🔥 反卫星技术的使用可能导致卫星通信完全中断，全球分销网络——包括我们的食品供应、能源和交通——将陷入瘫痪。全球银行和金融系统将崩溃，我们的通信基础设施将遭受毁灭性打击。

🎧 主持人Demetri Kofinas呼吁公众关注头顶上空的危险，太空战争的影响是灾难性的，而我们对此却知之甚少。

In Episode 6 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Joan Johnson-Freese about space warfare and the weaponization of outer space. Joan Freese is a professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College. She’s been a faculty member at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and the Air War College, which emphasizes the employment of air, space, and cyberspace in joint operations. Professor Freese has also served on the Space Studies Board of the National Academies of Science and has often testified before Congress on matters of space warfare and space security. She is the author of multiple books on space warfare and space security, among them, Heavenly Ambitions: America’s Quest to Dominate Space, The Chinese Space Program: A Mystery Within a Maze, and her latest book, Space Warfare in the 21st Century.

In this episode, we go into outer space. We don’t just stay in the low earth orbit (LEO) of the international space station, but move all the way to high (HEO), geostationary orbits (GEO) more than twenty-six thousand miles (35,786 km) above the Earth’s equator, where some of our most valuable and vulnerable satellites operate. We look at what the United States, China, and Russia are doing in the area of space warfare. We look at what our militaries are doing to weaponization outer space. We learn about ASAT’s, Kinetic Orbital Strikes, and Kinetic Kill Vehicles. We learn that any significant use of anti-satellite technologies could create a wall of space debris around earth orbit so thick, that we would be unable to launch anything into space including satellites, our space station, and any space missions to Mars and beyond for generations. Any and all satellite communications would go dark. Global distribution networks – including our food supplies, energy, and transportation – would grind to a halt. The global banking and financial system would collapse. Our communication infrastructure would be devastated. The implications of space warfare are catastrophic, and yet, the public is largely unaware of the dangers orbiting right above our heads. It’s high time we take notice.

Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas

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