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Preview: Season 53 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Inside the escalating military struggle to control space and the satellites we rely on.
An arms race is escalating above us, as military powers vie for control of space. Discover how satellites we rely on are vulnerable to attack, how debris is filling increasingly crowded orbits, and what can be done to protect them.
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Space Wars Preview
Preview: Season 53 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
An arms race is escalating above us, as military powers vie for control of space. Discover how satellites we rely on are vulnerable to attack, how debris is filling increasingly crowded orbits, and what can be done to protect them.
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- Nearly every single person on this planet uses space every day.
(machine beeping) - [Narrator] A new battlefield is emerging.
- [Speaker] It's like something out of "Star Wars," inconceivable even 10 years ago.
- What would a war in space actually look like?
- Russia launched cyberattacks- - There has not been a domain that human beings have not figured out a way to fight in.
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