Canadian military not ready for "Space Force."
"I think the best things Canada can do is to remain closely linked with U.S space agencies," he said.
"From that we can continue to learn and influence and play a part."
Decades ago, the U.S. military declared that space would be a critical war-fighting domain. It created the Colorado-based Air Force Space Command in 1982, which employs more than 36,000 people around the world providing space and cyber capabilities to the Defence Department. And the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base in California designs and buys most of the Pentagon's space systems, while also overseeing satellite and other aircraft launches.
Weaponizing space
However, big questions about Trump's policy remain unanswered.
Could this push rival nations into a race to weaponize space? Would countries begin to carry out combat activities above the earth's atmosphere?
"It's kind of remarkable, what's been going on," Lawson said. "These things are kind of Star Wars-level ideas."
This rapid shift toward seeing low-Earth orbit as a commercial and military field is shattering the long-held view of space as a neutral place, where everyone operates peacefully.
But it's an ideal Lawson said many countries still seem prepared to uphold.
"I think the real goal is to make space war less likely."
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