space warfare
Battles beyond atmosphere
Space warfare is armed conflict conducted in outer space or targeting space-based assets.
This includes attacks on satellites, orbital weapons platforms, and the militarization of space for strategic advantage.
The term covers both actual military operations beyond Earth's atmosphere and the broader domain of planning for such conflicts: Space warfare capabilities have become central to modern military doctrine.
Much discussion remains theoretical, though anti-satellite weapons have been tested.
- orbitalRevolving around another
- orbital strikeBombardment from orbit
- laserConcentrated light device
- ion cannonWeapon firing charged particles
- satelliteOrbiting celestial body
weapons platform · starfighter · missile · fleet · fighter squadron · battlecruiser · debris · void · zero gravity · antimatter · shields · plasma · dogfight · battle stations · blockade · torpedo · railgun · asteroid
- sci-fi conceptstime travel, faster-than-light, generation ships, multiverse, parallel worlds
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- global threatsterrorism, nuclear war, cyberattacks, pandemic, nuclear weapons
space warfareconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
naval warfare · ground combat · sea warfare · trench warfare · jungle warfare
space warfarespace exploration
Investigating the cosmos beyond Earth
space science · space tourism · Apollo-Soyuz · commercial spaceflight · satellite communications
space, warfare, spaces, spaced, spacing, spacer, spacious, spatial, spatially