Ministry of State China's security announced that foreign spy intelligence agencies are trying to steal secrets from the country's space program, Reuters reported.
The ministry said that safeguarding space security has become a key strategy for China's future survival and development. In recent years, some Western countries have formed space combat forces, exercised space action capabilities, and even considered Beijing a major competitor in space. district, the ministry adds.
According to the Ministry of State Security, foreign spy intelligence agencies have carried out remote surveillance against China through high-precision satellites, intending to steal secrets from China's space program.
High-precision satellites have emerged as a focus in modern warfare, with their importance highlighted in Russia's war against Ukraine, where real-time imagery would offer significant battlefield power. Competition for space resources has become "increasingly intense", and space exploration is facing a shortage of orbital and spectral resources, and abandoned satellites and rocket debris have increased the risk of collisions.
China's lunar strategy includes the first landing of an astronaut around 2030 in a program that counts Russia as a partner. In 2020, China conducted its first lunar sample return mission with Chang'e-5, retrieving samples from the near side of the moon.
In June, China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the far side of the moon, clearing a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere. Its space agency has set 2035 as the date by which a "base station" at the south pole of the Moon, with a space station in lunar orbit to be added by 2045.