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European Union Invests in ‘Bodyguard’ Satellite That Can Shoot Lasers at Space Threats

The European Defence Fund plans to deploy a satellite that could detect and counter enemy spacecraft. The European Commission announced a $7 million investment for the project, called Autonomous Space Situational Awareness Bodyguard Onboard Satellite.  According to the EDF’s two-page fact sheet, the planned satellite will be capable of finding “weak points of the threat...