The shadow of a new cold war looms over space.At least that has implied a high US military command.

General David Thompson, Vice President of Space Force Space Operations, has argued that the United States satellites that orbit around the earth are a constant objective of attacks of various kinds by Russia and China.

As published by the Washington Post, these "threats" have been happening for a long time and they increase day by day.

The Military High Command has warned that they must learn to deal with a whole new kind of attacks on their satellites.

Every day, Thompson has revealed, they are attacked in a cybernetic way, with lasers or signal blockers.The general stressed that there is a wide variety of ways in which their systems can be threatened.

The US, Russia and China star in a cyber war

Experts consulted by The Independent have expressed their concern and fear of the use of non -kinetic weapons to attack satellites.

In the worst case, the disqualification of their control systems could worsen the already worrying problem of space garbage and leave humanity trapped within the earth, without the possibility of continuing with the thriving career for space exploration.

China has everything face to become the greatest spatial power at the end of the decade

The new space race that governments from different countries and private companies have been carried out for several years.New systems and technologies are put into orbit every week pushing the limits of humanity a little further.

General Thompson pointed out that, although the United States is still "the best in the world in terms of capacity", other actors, such as China, have accelerated their programs and are going to become the greatest spatial power "at the end of thisdecade".

The Asian country is much more advanced than Russia in terms of development and implementation of new operations systems.

Thompson has revealed that the "incredible rhythm" to which they develop their technology allows them to be finalizing their own GPS system, new intelligence, surveillance and recognition programs.Beijing prepares the launch of "A couple of hundreds" of new satellites.

However, the president of the United States, Joe Biden has tried to contact China to establish an international framework for standards for space and cyberspace, according to the New York Times, but it seems that the Beijing government is not going to bevery active in negotiation.

For its part, Russia has carried out some actions quite questioned on the space of the international community in space.

A high leadership of the US Army says that China is about to complete the development of a hypersonic weapon that could be "a Sputnik moment"

As shared by the Vice President of Operations of Space Force, in 2020, Russia tested a new anti -attack weapons system in space in the months of July and December.

The development of space weapons has become another new race in the shadows among the 3 main actors in space.

A Pentagon report collected by SpaceNews argues that China has made significant advances in new electronic missile systems and weapons that could reach satellites that move in the high and low orbit orbits of the earth.

Finally, the United States has reported that it plans to reveal its own space weapon, which would have the ability to disable or destroy both satellites and spacecraft.