{"id":137260,"date":"2022-03-22T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/australia-launches-space-command-to-counter-china"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:03:25","slug":"australia-launches-space-command-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/australia-launches-space-command-to-counter-china","title":{"rendered":"Australia launches Space Command to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australia-launches-space-command-to-counter-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia gets its own space force.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Australian government yesterday launched the Space Command, a new defense agency with echoes of the US\u2019 Space Force that has been tasked with securing the country\u2019s place in an \u201calready contested\u201d cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Minister for Defence Peter Dutton said the new defense arm would be modest to start with, although he gave no detailed staffing or budget figures.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to the Australian Air Force, he said that space \u201cwill undoubtedly become a domain that takes on greater military significance in this century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Space is becoming more congested and is already contested, particularly as the boundaries between competition and conflict become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia gets its own space force. The Australian government yesterday launched the Space Command, a new defense agency with echoes of the US\u2019 Space Force that has been tasked with securing the country\u2019s place in an \u201calready contested\u201d cosmos. Australian Minister for Defence Peter Dutton said the new defense arm would be modest to start [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137260","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=137260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}