{"id":95029,"date":"2021-03-13T18:11:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=95029"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:20:07","slug":"asterx-frances-first-military-exercise-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asterx-frances-first-military-exercise-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;AsterX&#8221; &#8211; France&#8217;s First Military Exercise in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>French Space Command(CDE) launched its first military space exercise called <strong>AsterX<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Exercise AsterX:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The exercise has been named AsterX in reference to the first French satellite, which was put into orbit in 1965.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>During the exercise, the French Military aims to monitor a potentially dangerous space object. It will also analyze threats to its own satellite from another foreign power possessing a considerable space force.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participation: <\/strong>The new US Space Force and German space agencies are also taking part in this exercise along with France.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance of this exercise:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The exercise is a part of France&#8217;s strategy to become the world&#8217;s third-largest space power after the USA and China.<\/li>\n<li>These space military exercises are also the first-ever attempt not only for France but also for Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why is this exercise conducted by France?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In 2017, Russian spy-satellite<\/strong> \u201cOlymp-K\u201d tried to intercept the transmissions from a Franco-Italian satellite \u201cAthena-Fidus\u201d. This satellite was in use by both Italian and French armies for secure communications. This act of Russia was called \u201can act of espionage\u201d by France.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hence,<\/strong> to prevent such attacks in the future, France in 2019 announced its French Space Command and is also conducting this exercise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/france-conducts-first-military-exercises-in-space-7222519\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? French Space Command(CDE) launched its first military space exercise called AsterX. About Exercise AsterX: The exercise has been named AsterX in reference to the first French satellite, which was put into orbit in 1965. Purpose: During the exercise, the French Military aims to monitor a potentially dangerous space object. It will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asterx-frances-first-military-exercise-in-space\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;AsterX&#8221; &#8211; France&#8217;s First Military Exercise in Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,1738,9],"tags":[1334,1425],"class_list":["post-95029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_2","tag-st_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704798091},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}