Whatever Trump claims, weaponisation of space makes losers of us all

When the US Space Force announced on September 14 that “the US has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action”, I thought of Isaac Newton’s well-known declaration that he could not calculate the madness of people.

This is the first time a country has admitted to deploying weapons in space.

Today, the orbits are congested and contested with many nations conducting military activities, such as surveillance and reconnaissance, early missile...