Ukraine's Parliament Backs Space Forces Bill in First Reading: 252 Lawmakers Vote in Favour, Missile Early-Warning System Planned
KYIV — Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada on November 9 approved draft law No. 13255 in its first reading, a bill that would create Space Forces as a new branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The proposal was supported by 252 lawmakers, with no votes against.
The bill would add Space Forces alongside the Land Forces, Air Force, Navy and Unmanned Systems Forces. It envisages developing space technologies for defence, including a national early-warning system to detect enemy missile launches, a secure satellite communications network for the military, and capabilities to counter such attacks. The bill was introduced by 33 lawmakers, including Fedir Venislavskyi of the ruling Servant of the People party.
Ukraine currently depends largely on allies, especially the United States, for satellite data that provides early warning of missile launches, and its forces rely heavily on SpaceX Starlink terminals for communications and drone control. Kyiv has been pushing to build sovereign satellite capacity: on October 1, the OBRIA NANO test satellite, built by Ukrainian company Himera with Denmark's GomSpace, was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
A first-reading vote approves a bill's general concept only. The text must still pass committee amendments and a second-reading vote and be signed by the president before becoming law. Parliament's budget committee has assessed that establishing, maintaining and equipping the proposed force would require additional Defence Ministry spending, and the bill sets no funding or deployment timetable for a satellite constellation.
(Source: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine)
Source: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
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