# How China Is Expanding Its Anti-Satellite Arsenal  ## Metadata - Author: Audrey Decker - Full Title: How China Is Expanding Its Anti-Satellite Arsenal - Category: #articles - Summary: China is rapidly building counterspace weapons: ground lasers, missiles, jammers, and satellites that can grab or attack other satellites. It is assembling a "kill web" of hundreds of satellites to find and target forces on Earth. The U.S. Space Force says it must protect U.S. satellites and deny China’s space assets, but it is underfunded. - URL: https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2025/04/how-china-expanding-its-anti-satellite-arsenal/404283/ ## Highlights - China is rapidly building out its arsenal of counterspace weapons: everything from ground-based lasers to satellites that can grab other satellites, all of which pose a “grave threat” to the U.S., according to Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k5kw0q1qvjbfv8k1kv8wgrj2)) - “Aside from missiles, the PLA has fielded multiple ground-based laser weapons able to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellite sensors. By the mid-to-late 2020s, we expect them to deploy systems high enough in power that they can physically damage satellite structures,” he said. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k5kw1jrbwb7haqbgq9z1vs3x)) - “That's a new mission set and really rounds out what we say it means to have space superiority, to use space control: protect ours, but also deny theirs, and that's what we're trying to invest more in,” Saltzman said. But the Space Force doesn’t have enough money to do it. Saltzman said his service is “critically unfunded.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k5kw3byk1aj2yws0hzqaqr9j))