{"id":132144,"date":"2021-12-10T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/top-space-force-official-china-is-developing-space-capabilities-at-twice-the-rate-of-us"},"modified":"2021-12-10T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T07:24:06","slug":"top-space-force-official-china-is-developing-space-capabilities-at-twice-the-rate-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/top-space-force-official-china-is-developing-space-capabilities-at-twice-the-rate-of-us","title":{"rendered":"Top Space Force official: China is developing space capabilities at \u2018twice the rate\u2019 of US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/top-space-force-official-china-is-developing-space-capabilities-at-twice-the-rate-of-us2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gen. David Thompson, vice chief of space operations for the US Space Force, said Saturday China is developing its space capabilities at \u201ctwice the rate\u201d of the US.<\/p>\n<p>On a panel of US space experts and leaders speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in a panel moderated by CNN\u2019s Kristin Fisher, Gen. Thompson warned China<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/21\/china\/china-us-space-race-mic-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> could overtake the US in space capabilities<\/a> by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact, that in essence, on average, they are building and fielding and updating their space capabilities at twice the rate we are means that very soon, if we don\u2019t start accelerating our development and delivery capabilities, they will exceed us,\u201d Gen. Thompson said, adding, \u201c2030 is not an unreasonable estimate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. David Thompson, vice chief of space operations for the US Space Force, said Saturday China is developing its space capabilities at \u201ctwice the rate\u201d of the US. On a panel of US space experts and leaders speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in a panel moderated by CNN\u2019s Kristin Fisher, Gen. Thompson warned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}