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Challenges to Security in Space: Space Reliance in an Era of Competition and Expansion, 2022 edition, 80 pp, information cutoff March 2022.

Commissioned by US DoD. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

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• CLM-0743 Two separate expert bodies looked at the same 2013 Chinese launch and disagreed about what it was: one calls it probably a rocket test, the other says it hints at a basic ability to attack satellites very far from Earth. Neither says a satellite that high has ever actually been shot down.

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