French Space Command AsterX 2025 space wargames: 12 days, 12 allied nations, 18 threat scenarios in multiple orbits

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — France’s Space Command conducted its fifth annual AsterX space war games exercise March 28 including 170 participants from 12 allied nations, including South Korea and the United States, conducting operations based on 18 realistic threat scenarios in multiple orbits.

Here’s one:

An adversary’s space tug releases six small satellites near an allied military observation satellite. All six are presumed to be experimental spacecraft and the players must confirm that. It turns out that one, named Norbet, is . . .

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