China's Military Satellites Are Watching America's Every Move

[Beijingwalker]

China's Military Satellites Are Watching America's Every Move​

Published May 08, 2024 at 8:07 AM EDT

A Long March 3B rocket carrying the Beidou-3GEO3 satellite lifts off from China on June 23, 2020. China is challenging the U.S. monopoly on satellite tracking capability, a senior Space Force official said. STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES


China is fast challenging the United States' monopoly in space as new remote-sensing satellites have allowed Beijing to monitor American military assets globally.

"The PLA has rapidly advanced in space in a way that few people can really appreciate," Major General Gregory J. Gagnon, the Space Force's deputy chief of space operations for intelligence, said at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies on May 2.

The Space Force, established by former President Donald Trump, faces challenges posed by China's rapidly transforming space capabilities.

Space has emerged as a contested domain integral to modern military operations, as countries have sought to track each other's military assets from space. Military strategists believe satellites and space-based weapons could be used to fire the first shot in future conflicts. Satellites could be used to jam an opponent's signals during an escalation of military tensions.

China established its version of the Space Force in 2015, which was placed under the hierarchy of the People's Liberation Army's Strategic Support Force (SSF). Chinese President Xi Jinping dissolved the SSF last month, and a new force called the Information Support Force was constituted to merge the SSF's existing remit with it.

China has added over 400 satellites in the past two years, from which more than half have the capability to track objects on Earth, Gagnon said at the Mitchell Institute.

"They will now—in a way that we're not comfortable talking about in America—they will be inside a rapidly expanding weapons engagement zone," Gagnon added.

Gagnon explained that China can now track U.S. military assets even when they are mobile, challenging U.S. monopoly on long-range targeting. The data collected by China's satellites can provide a precise location of military vessels on the move at sea, making their subsequent targeting during conflict easier, according to Gagnon.

"Few countries have that advantage," Gagnon said.

Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. State Department for comment via email.

This isn't the first time a senior U.S. Space Force official has warned about China's growing space capability.

General Bradley Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations at the U.S. Space Force, recently raised an alarm about China's exponential growth in satellite-based surveillance capability.

"The PRC has more than 470 [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] satellites feeding a robust sensor-shooter kill web," Saltzman said in March at the Mitchell Institute's Spacepower Security Forum, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine.

The rapidly declining cost of satellite launches has also spurred a revolution in China's private satellite companies launching new satellites. Chinese companies can now share near-accurate satellite imagery of U.S. military assets on land and at sea.

In 2023, Chinese companies launched 120 commercial satellites, which made up 54 percent of all satellites sent into orbit last year, according to China's state-run news agency Xinhua.

Mino Space, a Beijing-based satellite company, recently published the images of the U.S. Norfolk Naval Base captured with its Taijing 4-03 satellite. Mino Space has emerged as a leading Chinese satellite imagery provider that occasionally showcases its satellite capability by publishing the latest visuals of U.S. military bases and assets.

Mizar Vision, a Chinese satellite imagery provider launched in 2021, has been sharing daily satellite imagery of the military assets participating in the U.S.-Philippines joint exercise, Balikatan, over the past weeks on X-like Chinese social media platform Weibo.

Mizar is closely tracking the movements of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, currently deployed in the South China Sea for joint exercises with the Philippines. It has also shared imagery of military activity around Taiwan and Japan over the past weeks.

 

[Hendarto]

No more ocean to hide, Thanks but some people still question the Chinese ability to track and provide a firing solution to their ASBM or long-range hypersonic missile YJ21 with a range of 1500 km How the hell can they achieve that without satellite providing targeting data to the missile? read this

Gagnon explained that China can now track U.S. military assets even when they are mobile, challenging U.S. monopoly on long-range targeting. The data collected by China's satellites can provide a precise location of military vessels on the move at sea, making their subsequent targeting during conflict easier, according to Gagnon.

"Few countries have that advantage," Gagnon said.

Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. State Department for comment via email.

This isn't the first time a senior U.S. Space Force official has warned about China's growing space capability.

 

[Cash gk]

Pakistan must follow the footsteps and reverse the act of air chief and asim munnir regarding gps and beidu.

 

[Han Patriot]

No more ocean to hide, Thanks but some people still question the Chinese ability to track and provide a firing solution to their ASBM or long-range hypersonic missile YJ21 with a range of 1500 km How the hell can they achieve that without satellite providing targeting data to the missile? read this

Gagnon explained that China can now track U.S. military assets even when they are mobile, challenging U.S. monopoly on long-range targeting. The data collected by China's satellites can provide a precise location of military vessels on the move at sea, making their subsequent targeting during conflict easier, according to Gagnon.

"Few countries have that advantage," Gagnon said.

Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the U.S. Space Force and the U.S. State Department for comment via email.

This isn't the first time a senior U.S. Space Force official has warned about China's growing space capability.

I think the largest SIGINT, IMINT sat constellation is from China.

 

[Hendarto]

More satellite is planned to rival Space X!

China raises stakes in SpaceX internet rivalry, claims higher orbit for SkyNet

Developer CASC said initial satellite in the ambitious broadband constellation was sent 20,000km above the Earth where it will test core technologies.

www.scmp.com

China raises stakes in SpaceX internet rivalry, claims higher orbit for first SkyNet satellite​

• Developer CASC said initial satellite in the ambitious broadband constellation was sent 20,000km above the Earth where it will test core technologies
• Unlike Starlink and other communication satellites, SkyNet’s network will fly in medium Earth orbit, just below navigation systems like GPS and BeiDou

Published: 1:03pm, 10 May 2024

The first satellite in China’s ambitious Smart SkyNet broadband internet constellation – part of an effor to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink – was launched into medium Earth orbit on Thursday.
The satellite, known as Zhihui Tianwang-1 01 or Smart SkyNet-1 01, left the Xichang satellite launch centre in southwestern China at 9.43am Beijing time atop a Long March 3B rocket.

Its developer China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said the satellite will test high-speed, user-friendly communication technologies from 20,000km (12,400 miles) above the Earth.

According to CASC, the satellite will be joined by seven more satellites in an initial formation of the SkyNet constellation, with the potential for expansion to 16 or 32 satellites.

The satellite constellation bears the same name as China’s video surveillance network of public spaces – the largest of its kind on Earth, with more than 20 million cameras. There is no known connection between the two, and according to reports in state media the satellite does not carry surveillance equipment.

The Smart SkyNet constellation could be combined with China’s low Earth orbit megaconstellations – GuoWang and G60 Starlink, which each consist of more than 12,000 satellites – as well as those in higher geostationary orbit, according to CCTV.
“Such an integrated, space-based network will provide internet access to all types of users across all scenarios and all domains,” the state broadcaster said on Thursday.

“Once complete, the constellation will provide personalised broadband network services with no blind spots globally,” the report said.

According to CCTV, Smart SkyNet-1 01 will test core technologies, including space-based laser communication and on-demand internet access for users ranging from Antarctica research stations to ships in the Western Indian Ocean and satellites in low Earth orbits.

Medium Earth orbit – typically defined as altitudes between 2,000km (1,240 miles) and 36,000km (22,400 miles) – is mostly used for global navigation systems. GPS networks operate at around 20,200km while China’s BeiDou satellites are at 21,500km.

The world’s largest broadband constellation, SpaceX’s Starlink, has nearly 6,000 satellites in low Earth orbit to deliver internet services to remote locations around the world. The Texas-based company says that number could ultimately rise to 42,000.

A Tsinghua University team came up with the idea of putting a broadband constellation into medium Earth orbit, with a collaboration agreement signed with the Shanghai municipal government in 2018 to implement the project, according to the university’s WeChat account.

Tsinghua said multiple institutes were involved in the development of Smart SkyNet-1 01, including researchers from CASC, China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

According to CASC, the satellite is equipped with a multi-beam, high-speed microwave link, an inter-satellite two-way laser link, and a digital processing and forwarding platform.

 

[Nuffle]

"The PRC has more than 470 [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] satellites feeding a robust sensor-shooter kill web," Saltzman said in March at the Mitchell Institute's Spacepower Security Forum, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine.

This is true?

 

[Shanlung]

"The PRC has more than 470 [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] satellites feeding a robust sensor-shooter kill web," Saltzman said in March at the Mitchell Institute's Spacepower Security Forum, according to Air & Space Forces Magazine.

This is true?

And the many sonar buoys under the surface of the ocean.

Even if the captain on a carrier fart, China will know even if cannot smell.

And the

Maritime Militia​

The Maritime Militia, the first line of defense, counts one-hundred eighty-thousand ocean-going fishing boats and four thousand merchant[7] freighters, some towing sonar detectors, crewed by a million experienced sailors transmitting detailed information around the clock on every warship afloat. Their intelligence goes to shore bases that fuse their reports with automated transmissions from Beidou satellites and forward the data to specialists operating ‘vessel management platforms,’ collating, formatting, and sending actionable information up the PLAN command chain.

While those 180,000 ocean going fishing boats are catching fishes and squids, they are also watching and listening to the turning screws of USA carriers and naval assets. And probably reporting every second to the super computer and Chinese AI as to where the USA naval assets are and will be.

And if Chinese satellite can track F-22s, how much easier to track the plodding USA carriers to know exactly where they are the moment they leave Pearl Harbour and cross the 3rd Island Chain

WANG SUI WANG WANG SUI 萬歲 萬 萬歲

Talking about tracking, this video might amuse folks here

https://twitter.com/x/status/1038033917020786689

See how a Chinese satellite videoed and tracked a rocket taking off and then tracking that rocket.

So much easier to track American carriers and Burkes and Ticos , unless they moving faster than speeding rocket.

Remember the satellite was moving and had to move or that not be a satellite. Knowing and tracking via radar will be so much easier than tracking and focusing via camera

Which then be messaged to supercomputer to direct the DF21Ds and DF 26 and the thousands of supersonic hypersonic AShCMs to send the good news to US carriers and whatever they got.

So USA can act macho macho strutting about in phony FONOPs .

And all on board knowing they living on borrowed time.


https://eurasiantimes.com/china-plans-to-turn-its-satellites-into-spy-fighter-jets/

Shadowing F-22 Raptor – China Plans To Turn Its Low-Cost Satellites Into Spy Platforms That Can Even Track Fighter Jets​

By
Ashish Dangwal
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April 8, 2022

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China is reportedly developing an advanced artificial intelligence system that could turn low-cost commercial satellites already orbiting the Earth into potent spy platforms. Reports suggest that it may have a success rate roughly seven times greater than existing technology.

This system is being developed by Chinese military researchers, who say that it is capable of tracking moving objects as small as a car with extraordinary precision, reported Chinese media.
The challenge of distinguishing a target via satellite footage was illustrated in 2020 when a Chinese space company released a video clip taken by Jilin-1, a small satellite. The satellite was presumably pursuing a cruising fighter jet from an altitude of almost 500km (310 miles).

Changguang Satellite, the manufacturer of the Jilin-1 Satellite, released that footage, which was extensively shared on Chinese social media platforms. A fighter plane can be seen flying over the city in the video. The company also put a caption beneath the video, allowing internet users to identify the fighter’s type.

China’s satellite apparently captured high-speed flying fighter
Many internet users speculated that the fighter jet was most likely the US-made F-22 stealth fighter. Its horizontal tail and wing were similar to those of the F-22 fighter, leading to the assumption. This entire predicament was ostensibly the catalyst for the development of new technology. The plane in the video was approximately 20 meters (65 feet) in length.


The commercial satellite’s camera, which has a resolution of around 1-meter, would only produce a few pixels of the small target. It is even more difficult to recognize an object when there are fewer details in the image.
Since each frame of the satellite footage encompassed more than 10 square kilometers, a small target like a car could fade into the background or be confused with other cars. This will probably make tracking its path from orbit virtually impossible.

File Image: F-22 Raptor
The Chinese team claimed that its new AI technology had attained 95% precision in finding a small object in the videos recorded by Jilin-1, with a success rate approximately seven times greater than existing technology.



I AM SURE CHINA GOT REDUNDANCIES AFTER REDUNDANCIES AS TO KNOW WHERE USA NAVAL ASSETS ARE AT ALL TIMES.

AND IF PUSHING TURN TO REAL SHOVING, USA SAILORS WILL REMAIN FOREVER YOUNG

AND NOW USA KNOW CHINA GOT LOTS OF BANG AND LONGER REACH THEN USA CAN DREAM OF.
AND ANY TIME USA WANT TO TURN PUSHING INTO REAL SHOVING, CHINA WILL BE MORE THAN READY AND WILLING TO TANGO :enjoy:

Chinese Long-Range Ballistic Missiles Struck Moving Ship In South China Sea: Report​

The test could represent the first full demonstration of a real Chinese long-range anti-ship ballistic missile capability.​

BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK NOVEMBER 16, 2020


At least some of the ballistic missiles that China's People's Liberation Army fired into the South China Sea during an exercise earlier this year, which you can read about more in the War Zone's initial story on those drills, reportedly hit a moving target ship. If true, this would be the country's first known demonstration of an actual long-range anti-ship ballistic missile capability, which could significantly change the operational calculus for any potential opponent, including the United States, in the disputed maritime region and elsewhere in the Pacific.
The South China Morning Post reported last week that Wang Xiangsui, a retired People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer, had said that one DF-26B intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) and one DF-21D medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) had struck the target vessel as it sailed near the Paracel Island chain during the August exercise. Wang, who has been described as "well-connected" in the past, is best known as one of the co-authors of the 1999 book Unrestricted Warfare, which covered various asymmetric means to undermine and defeat countries that were technologically superior to China. It has become a highly influential text, and general concept, in national security circles.


"We launched the DF-21 and DF-26, and the missiles hit a vessel sailing south of the Paracel Islands," Wang said during a closed-door gathering in China's eastern Zhejiang province in October, according to the South China Morning Post. “Shortly after that, an American military attaché in Geneva, [Switzerland] complained and said it would lead to severe consequences if the missiles hit an American aircraft carrier. They see this as a show of force. But we are doing this because of their provocation."

Wang does not appear to have given any details about the target ship, its construction, how fast it might have been moving, or how the PLA may have cued the missiles their target.
It remains unclear exactly how many missiles the PLA fired during the exercise on Aug. 26. South China Morning Post's initial report had indicated that two weapons had been launched, one DF-26B and one DF-21D, from sites in China's northwestern Qinghai province and in Zhejiang, respectively.
I will not talk of DF21s or DF26s as that making you so uptight and I hate to induce constipation in you.
At least not at the very beginning.

Just run of the mill ShCMs that China got in abundance. That range far far beyond the range of America Harpoon and other associated crap

A lot more reach, and a lot more bang, and lots and lots of them too.
And all those will touch you before you even know that they are there, and way way before you can launch at China.

Chinese have about 3,000 of these kind of AShCMs.

In the form of Mach 3–4 YJ-12s carrying 400–500 semi shaped charge warheads, fired outside the AEGIS cover. The YJ-12 can also do evasive maneuvers to avoid anti-missile threats.

YJ-12 - Wikipedia

There is also the YJ-18 with reach exceeding Aegis cover. YJ-18 will start off at sub Mach 1. Until about 20 km from target , it will sprint at Mach 3–4 to deliver good news to the carrier .

China's YJ-18 Supersonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missile: America's Nightmare?

This Chinese description relates that the missile’s great strength is its “亚超结合的独特动力” [subsonic and supersonic combined unique propulsion]. Another term applied to this design is “双速制反舰导弹” [dual speed control ASCM]. As explained in the article, it is projected that YJ-18 would have an initial subsonic phase estimated at .8 Mach similar to the Klub of about 180km, but 20km from the target would unleash the supersonic sprint vehicle at speed of Mach 2.5 to 3. The “dual speed” function allows the system to realize certain advantages of subsonic cruise missiles, such as their “relatively long range, light weight and universality …” but also takes the chief advantage of supersonic ASCMs as well, namely the ability to “大幅压缩敌方的反应时间” [radically compress the enemy’s reaction time].

The Chinese article relates another advantage of the “dual speed” approach. Just as the missile comes into contact with the ship’s defenses, it “sheds the medium stage …,” thus simultaneously and dramatically altering both its speed and also its radar reflection, “which would impact the fire control calculation.” The likelihood that YJ-18 improves upon the Klub missile’s “digitization, automation, as well as providing more intelligent flight control and navigation technology” is attributed in the Chinese article to a recent Jane’s report.













Chinese have about 3,000 of these kind of AShCMs.

In the form of Mach 3–4 YJ-12s carrying 400–500 semi shaped charge warheads, fired outside the AEGIS cover. The YJ-12 can also do evasive maneuvers to avoid anti-missile threats.

YJ-12 - Wikipedia

There is also the YJ-18 with reach exceeding Aegis cover. YJ-18 will start off at sub Mach 1. Until about 20 km from target , it will sprint at Mach 3–4 to deliver good news to the carrier .

China's YJ-18 Supersonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missile: America's Nightmare?

This Chinese description relates that the missile’s great strength is its “亚超结合的独特动力” [subsonic and supersonic combined unique propulsion]. Another term applied to this design is “双速制反舰导弹” [dual speed control ASCM]. As explained in the article, it is projected that YJ-18 would have an initial subsonic phase estimated at .8 Mach similar to the Klub of about 180km, but 20km from the target would unleash the supersonic sprint vehicle at speed of Mach 2.5 to 3. The “dual speed” function allows the system to realize certain advantages of subsonic cruise missiles, such as their “relatively long range, light weight and universality …” but also takes the chief advantage of supersonic ASCMs as well, namely the ability to “大幅压缩敌方的反应时间” [radically compress the enemy’s reaction time].

The Chinese article relates another advantage of the “dual speed” approach. Just as the missile comes into contact with the ship’s defenses, it “sheds the medium stage …,” thus simultaneously and dramatically altering both its speed and also its radar reflection, “which would impact the fire control calculation.” The likelihood that YJ-18 improves upon the Klub missile’s “digitization, automation, as well as providing more intelligent flight control and navigation technology” is attributed in the Chinese article to a recent Jane’s report.




EVEN I NEVER SAID CHINA WILL SINK THE CBGs

WHO THE FCCK CARE ABOUT SINKING CBGs

WHEN THE SHIPS AND CARRIERS ARE BURNING FROM END TO END,
FROM THE FUEL ON BOARD AND ORDNANCE ON BOARD , AND THE PAINT
AND THE FLESH AND FAT AND OIL OF American MEN AND WOMEN

THEY ALL CAN REMAIN AFLOAT FOREVER TO GIVE SOLACE TO America AND THEIR RUNNING DOGGIES AND BROWN NOSERS THAT NONE OF THEM SUNK AT ALL



Any time USA want to tango, China will tango with USA

A hit from Chinese AShCM will be sufficient for it to be over for any USA carrier.

CHINESE AShCM CARRY EVEN MORE BANG AND HELLFIRE THAN THAT RUSSIAN P-800.
AND EXPECT AT LEAST 100 MISSILES BE HITTING THAT CARRIER, AND AT LEAST 10 TO EACH OF THE BURKES AND TICOS

https://twitter.com/x/status/1081840647965822977

Estimated China got 3000++ of AShCMs

But it is more likely Chinese be firing 100 such missiles at single USA carrier.


No shit about bulkheads and spaces to contain the hellfire that will likely engulf the entire carrier.
WHEN ENTIRE SHIP CANNOT CONTAIN THE HELLFIRE, DONT TALK CRAP THAT BULKHEADS AND SPACES CAN CONTAIN THAT KIND OF HELLFIRE


And not just the warhead, there will be 2–3 tons of missiles coming behind the warhead at Mach 3 tearing into the bulkheads and ordnance and aviation fuel and the poor men and women in the carrier. Those 2–3 tons of missile body will be tearing in the bulkheads faster and more deadly then APFSDS. Andf carrying its own unburned fuel to add to the fun.
Even steel will burn when hit with hell fire and tons of steel and debris coming in at Mach 3. The aviation fuel, and paint on walls, the bombs and ordnance will all cook off and add to the huge huge fire inside the carrier. Regardless if carrier under Condition Zebra or Donkey or Jackass.
The brave sailors in those carriers will not care or worry and be happy that their carrier not sinking. And only burning and burning from one end to the other end


USA need not worry too much of DF26s DF21s any more.

Or even of the 3000++ AShCMs of China, including many Mach3s


As long as USA carriers and Burkes and Ticos stay out of 2nd Island Chain, they will remain safe.

Meet the latest.

This baby is call the YJ-21 , 鹰击-21 or Eagle Strike 21


https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/yj-21-chinas-new-anti-ship-missile-will-make-the-navy-sweat/



AND OF COURSE, EXPECT 300+++ DF21s and DF26s that be raining down from directly over head at Mach 10