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Space has long been central to communications, navigation and military operations, but experts say it is becoming an increasingly contested domain. After the United States confirmed that it has weapons in orbit, questions are growing about the risk of conflict beyond Earth. DW’s Gerhard Elfers asks Antje Nötzold, space policy researcher at the Bundeswehr university, about what these systems can do, how China and Russia fit into the picture, and why a decades-old treaty may no longer be enough to regulate activity in space.
