(Military threats in space domain)

Abstract

Many nations consider space domain as another battleground and consider as fourth domain of military warfare beyond ground, sea, air, and cyber. Space domain battlefield is considered to be an increasingly important area in military combat of deterring and warfighting to defeat adversaries. Space capabilities have proven itself a superior force multipliers when deployed in conjunction with military operations in other combat areas.

                Threats coming from the space domain tend to escalate, especially in times of conflict and war. The impact from military operation in space domain is most likely to occur. Therefore, it is necessary to respond to threats in space domain.

                This study concludes that threats in space domain has three main impacts to military operations and they are 1) interception of security and military data, 2) intelligence gathering of operational area and 3) denial use of space.