Orbital Security Contest
This matters because GPS jamming and spoofing are already misdirecting civil airliners and disrupting militaries, while co-orbital 'inspector' satellites and tested anti-satellite weapons put the navigation, timing and communications that banks, phones and power grids depend on at risk.
In mid-2026 counterspace tools have normalized as everyday statecraft—jamming spreads across aviation corridors and Starlink's decisive role in Ukraine has exposed how much hangs on private constellations with no enforceable norms in place.
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Develops proximity-operations satellites and counterspace capabilities; expands constellations.
Jams GNSS over conflict zones; maneuvers inspector satellites; tests ASAT weapons.
Sets space-force posture and responds to counterspace threats.
Monitors and publicly attributes threatening on-orbit behavior and ASAT tests.
Provides battlefield connectivity in Ukraine; central to mega-constellation politics.
Independent analysis and cataloguing of counterspace developments and norms.
BECAUSE Spreading GPS jamming and spoofing near conflict zones forces airlines to reroute and rely on backup navigation, raising safety risk.
WATCH FOR EASA/ICAO advisories or reported spoofing incidents on flight-tracking data
BECAUSE Ukraine's battlefield communications depend on a private mega-constellation that adversaries are learning to jam and target.
WATCH FOR Reports of Starlink outages or Russian jamming success along the front
BECAUSE Kinetic ASAT tests and crowded co-orbital maneuvers create debris fields that threaten all satellites in those orbits.
WATCH FOR US Space Command debris-tracking alerts or new ASAT test announcements
BECAUSE Precision weapons and troop coordination rely on GPS timing that jamming degrades, pushing militaries toward costly hardened alternatives.
WATCH FOR Defense budget lines for resilient PNT or alternative navigation programs
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