President Emmanuel Macron personally watched as the French army leadership played out a four-day
Germany, Italy and the United States are participating in the AsterX space war game at the French national space agency CNES in Toulouse, the first such exercise in France or Europe.
This is the ability to simulate a change in trajectoryflying satellites, sending backup satellites for troubleshooting, monitoring sensitive data transmissions and encrypting transmissions from hostile satellites temporarily or even completely shutting them down.
Macron chairs meeting ahead of exerciseSpace Command, a body created in 2017 to implement France's military strategy in space. The French president's office said the exercise scenario may be fictitious but is not far-fetched.
The French government previously accusedRussia is that in 2017 it brought its Olymp-K reconnaissance satellite, also known as Louch, closer to the French-Italian military satellite Athena-Fidus, in what Defense Minister Florence Parley called "an act of espionage." The US said last year that Russia had conducted a non-destructive test of anti-satellite weapons from space. France believes that this is not a single such incident, there were others, but no details were provided.
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