Abstract
In the beginning of the century, science fiction depicted cyber and space weapons as fiction. Nowadays the fiction is turning into reality and more and more technology is being created for the sake of “defense.” Only three states in the world have the capacity to research and develop such means of contesting outer space. This analysis will look into the current USA, Russian, and Chinese space policy and cyber development, which might lead to a potential outer space conflict in the near future.
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Manov, B.S. (2018). Space Defense: A New Offensive. In: Carayannis, E., Campbell, D., Efthymiopoulos, M. (eds) Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Defense. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09069-6_61
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