SPACE FORCE: The Secret Orbit - Arms Race in Space | SpaceTime - WELT Documentary 

An excellent space history from an international perspective. Highly recommended for anyone who wants an understanding of why Space Force and where we are today & how we got here.

Finally a new space time episode!

36:38 Early U.S. recon satellites did have, along with the film capsules, radio telemetered visual data, although at a much lower resolution. Light from a camera lens was scanned, encoded, and "written" onto a [very] large roll of film. Then the light image on the film was scanned and detected, as the signal to control the radio transmission. I'm pretty sure that system was largely designed by Polaroid, with Dr. Land having a significant hand in the engineering. From Secret Sentries in Space, by Phillip Klass, which is a great Spy Satellite 101 primer.

Decades later it still a very interesting craft and documentary 👍.

Space docmentary on Christmas. My kind of channel.

Please do another I've been waiting patiently for months!

Well made video. Supposedly, no one is putting nuclear weapons on satellites but I'd bet some are.

Im glad i watched this, its good input.

Amazing 🤩

A EXCELLENT show explaining how space is been used by both military and cavillian power to control the world.

X37B Sounds far more ominous when spoken in German. Hell, "Bread and butter" sounds more ominous in German.

The debris in orbit reminds me of a camp with no trash can 🤔👍🪘

Amazing Documentary 👍.

This episode is super great. Love this

I knew it that the Air Force Space Command is now the Space Force!

You ask what could generate a Lazer in space? The Space Station here in Australia we have seen it grow and grow till it's the brightest object in the sky especially in the bush. It's massive!

Can we imagine if we all worked together as a team?

Many thanks for this documentary 👍

thanks for your precious info....

Why? Do we kill each other? Why?

Imagine how much money the military spends on experimental projects that ultimately just get canceled?

Am so fascinated with anything space hoping one day I will see spacecraft.

Thursday December 29, 2022,Good Afternoon and Season's Greetings everyone, I enjoyed watching this RU-vid video. I found the video very interesting and insightful. I wish I could be a member of a space program, perhaps an organization such as the United States Space Force, however I would not be able to join the USSF because I am too old and do not have U.S.A. citizenship. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to everyone, Alister Ian Hoult, Carrying Place, Ontario, Canada.

Can you imagine everything else they’re doing?

That militarization of space is a very slippery slope. Military shenanigan's in LEO will not end well regardless of the country (s) involved.

Very interesting

I like the kinetic weapons! No explosives just basically steel telephone poles being dropped over a target and hit with the force of a nuclear weapon! Purely kinetic energy!

He said it was a pipe dream in the 80’s, what a wit- Reagan would’ve never said that if America wasn’t capable, He knew what we didn’t.!! I’m a firm believer we have the Tech

It is my impression that the space force are of all nations working together now witch is a good thing I think .

Anything with Ulrich Walter is legendary…he is legendary…..go get em Ulrich you dirty boy

Though I thoroughly enjoyed this video, the real and profound danger of 'space junk' was not given enough emphasis. I believe that the History Channel or SciFi did an entire episode on the topic. It is mathematically inevitable that there will be so much debris that it will be impossible to maintain satellites in orbit... which is, umm, HUGE. And the effort required to clean it up is either ENOROMOUSLY EXPENSIVE or physically/technologically impossible. Bad news for future generations.

It's going to be a reality sooner than you think

Cool. VERY SMART MOVE by India who chose to test their Satellite Destruction at a Low altitude so that the debris left behind burned up upon re-entry. 👍🏻

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I agree with comments made regarding this excellent documentary. The establishment of a 6th Branch of Armed Services for The US was definitely a necessary step. Space is no longer a benign environment - it is slowly by surely becoming a contested arena. Currently - there’s a great deal of junk in orbit - debris from satellite launches, booster separations, etc. This is becoming a problem. One Space Shuttle Window was slightly damaged when was impacted by a paint chip - traveling at 17,000 + MPH. Debris is not the only issue at stake. What if a rogue state decides to launch (a) satellite(s) designed to contaminate specific orbits used by commercial and/ or military satellites? Given the unpredictable nature of leaders such Kim Jong Un of North Korea 🇰🇵, such an action isn’t out of the realm of possibility.

The buildings under ground Arlington Va. are shelfs for water intake at ground levels on up to street levels above ground.

A new way to describe the orbiting debris..."cascade"! 😲 10:40

The only time something becomes a weapon is when you use it if you have it and don’t use it it’s a deterrent to being attacked

Methinks “we” like it, to wit: crime, murder, war, fictional movies depicting same. “We” obviously like it. Very Entertaining!

Thank you . ( 2022 / Dec / 28 )

In the 80s and 90s you could get raw nasa shuttle video on sat dish. A guy even had all the tapes on cable tv.

A couple years ago, I watched a video similar to this, but it was in English. It talked about the number of working satellites and their uses. Then it revealed the thousands of space trash and hundreds of defunct satellites ruined by space trash and collisions with other satellites. What a mess! This video revealed just how bad it is as well as the speed it's all circulating around the Earth. Scary. How does anyone safely get their satellite in orbit?

Way out of my category but very important

The Fraunhofer Institute is also responsible for giving us the MP3 format.

Plastic in the ocean is a good example of what space is going to be like

Damn. That Kurzgesagt voice actor is bringing home the bacon.

Thanks for the Christmas present!

Oh my good friends

Perfectly blended truths with little lies. Hey I get it.... If I were in charge if Space Force... I'd also be fabricating stories.

Igneous fiery meteorite phenomenons the current ones ; starlink and satellites babe lies greatly

This has to be the Kurzgesagt narrator!

Who is singing during the opening seconds ... and where can I found her work ... ? .

Great question ⁉️

Shooting Stars!!

Multiple Space stations should begin to Launch to research effects on Gravity & Radiation in different Orbits

Mankind at his best warfare man can we REALLY make it through .

they are testing manufacturing in space, mostly lens's for spy sats also testing power sources and new eletric propulsion

The space forces should be used for cleaning up the orbits around the earth.

With that Black Ops Technology that's 200 yrs ahead of Present Technology they sure could clean up the Space Junk for starters!

Happy 3rd Birthday Space Force

35:02 WHAT THE EVERLASTING FFFFFFFFF?!?!?!?

Aruba,Jamaica ooo I wanna take ya, Bermuda,Bahama come on pretty mama.

It was founded as ARPA, not DARPA .....

Who sings the intro music ?

We sure need sweepers to remove useless objects in orbit to clean the flight lanes

Thinking maybe you want to look at it from a different direction; A means by which instead of evading and monitoring you search and collect there by clearing the sace and fixing the problem not repeating it over and over again

We are already in space

At 7:11, that's Groom Lake aka Area 51.

Satellites comms mostly unprotected. Where the crypto satellites at? Also couldnt you track the test vehicle in space with just normal telescopes? You can see cube sats fairly easily afterall.

It was a terrible lack of vision that JFK didn't intend to build a permanent lunar base than just having astronauts visit and walk on the moon for a few hours. I mean, had it been part of the original space race plan, then the space industry would be much more advanced today with (probably) frequent trips to Mars with a permanent colony and base operating on Mars. Similarly Elon Musk doesn't have a greater vision than colonising the red planet, when he should be thinking about Mars as a launchpad to venture into very deep space and possible generational ships to colonise distant Earth-like planets in other solar systems.

I like the federation of planets insignia

Can a satellite weapon use weather as a weapon?

Good job humans, we've already trashed space 🤦‍♂️

I believe we are tera forming in space

We should solve our problems on earth 🌎 before going into space for exploration instead of war!

So what are we doing about hypersonic missiles coming in

We are able to use those systems now, because Ragan 😊started paying for it and focusing on an idea back then. That's not a foolish idea.

Precious minerals found on planets and asteroids and meteors. Space race is born and militarized!

Now realizing that during those nuclear drills as a child was accompanied people in old Russia doing the very same drills, so many people on edge, all at the same time, so sad!

History indicates the ones start the wars are the losers at the end, and the ones answer to fight the advesary are victorious.

All we need is to find that one bacteria, then it's on.

You couldn't say V for vengeance? wth!

2:16 ! 3:11 4:30-5:36 6:00 alemán 6:50

Space Olympics? Who the eff set that up? We needed to cooperate.

Chuck Jaeger still first after 60 years ? ? ? IONIZE ATMOSFERE AROUND SHIP AND MOVE PLASMA WITH MAGNETIC FIELDS: 1. Engine is not on board. 2. Cx - air drag - becomes The Engine surrounding ship with a glow - how mysterious....

Why does the spoken audio not match the speaker's mouth movements????

There are definitely satellite that can shoot sharks with freaking lazer beams from the freaking heads out there!!!!

If we're going to build a base on the moon, we will need a police force.

THE USA MUST ALWAYS LEAD!!!!!!! AND KEEP TRUTH and GOD FIRST!!!!!!!!! ALSO USA PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

European Space entities both government and commercial are developing space debris cleanup systems unlike the messy world powers. However these "clean up" satellites could be utilized to knock out satellites as well. The sword has two edges ;)

Ideas for villains!!

I'll be here !!!

I PERSONALLY CHOOSE TO CARE ABOUT, SHARE AND PEACEFULLY FULLY COOPERATE WITH ALL OF THE WORLDS PEOPLES !!!! IN AT LEAST TRYING TO MAKE ALL OF OUR OWN BABIES FUTURE PLANET, AND LIVES A MORE PEACEFUL, SUSTAINABLE, PLANET TO LIVE ON !!!!!! BY SOCIALLY COOPERATING WITH, AND PLANNING THE PLANETS FUTURE GEOPOLITICAL ARCHITECTURE TOGETHER. !!!! INSTEAD OF CONTINUALLY TRYING TO DEFEAT EACH OTHER !!!!! WE ALL MUST LEARN TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE'RE ALL SHARING A COSMICALLY FLOATING EXTREMELY VULNERABLE BIOSPHERE !!!! ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER ORGANISMS/SPECIES EXTREMELY VULNERABLE ECO SYSTEMS !!!!!! BY FINALLY BECOMING CIVILIZED ENOUGH TO GRASP THAT FACT !!!! WE CAN LEARN TO REFUSE TO HARM OR CONTINUALLY KEEP ON TRYING TO KILL OURSELVES, AND EACH OTHERS BABIES !!!! I REALIZE THAT IS A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT THAT'S CURRENTLY BEING CALLED A WORLD WIDE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT SYSTEM !!!!!! I WANT MY FUTURE BABIES ANCESTORS TO HAVE A FUTURE PLANET THAT'S WORTH LIVING ON !!!!! WHY ARE WE HU--MONKEYS SO UNCIVILIZED !!!! DON'T YOU WANT YOUR OWN FUTURE BABIES ANCESTORS TO HAVE A DECENT CHANCE FOR THEIR OWN FUTURE SURVIVAL ????????? CHOOSE AS WISELY AS POSSIBLE !!!!!! IT'S NOW TIME TO MAKE THAT PERSONAL CHOICE HU--MONKEYS !!!!!!!! YOUR FUTURE BABIES ANCESTORS LIVES REALLY ARE IN YOUR HANDS !!!!

Humanity is infected with a curse from the beginning of our time and it is the weakness of mankind Humanity it is the human emotions that make people what we are

We should be producing energy from space

demand all this year living in dead my eye most power

What is that song called at the start, also new here good stuff from what ive watched thus far.

FYI: Wernher Von Braun (Brawn) Not Brown

They also militaryized scientist

24:36 Carbon dioxide lasers are real and powerful enough now.