Space is heating up once more after the cold war. This time, there are more players with more advanced technologies. Unlike the fighter jets and the aircraft carriers, the technologies developed are not clearly broadcast. Some of my propositions most probably have already been deployed.
Surveillance satellites are the key to the military satellites. As the space is getting more crowded, sneaking around with no disturbance is almost impossible. The key satellites will need to be able defend themselves like the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Instead of turrets with machine guns, they would have laser guns.
Space is monitored continuously for debris tracking. Being stealth would be an advantage like the B-2 Spirit. They would be nuclear battery powered without solar panels and antennas to minimize the radar footprint. They would only communicate optically. Having a lot of LEO telecom relays that also have optical transceivers on board would help the stealth sat to communicate with minimum tracking.
LEO telecom relays are also a good cover. Military satellites hidden inside the body of a telecom relay would be hard to distinguish from the real ones.
Finally, we would have giant satellites like the aircraft carriers. They would be able to deploy and retrieve small satellites based on their mission.
Space is a very tough battlefield. You can’t just shoot or bomb around you. Also, it is full of mines, the space debris.
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