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The world is baby-stepping into Space Warfare. Last week we saw China and USA imaging each other’s satellites and today UK and US space command did a Joint military operation. UK Space Command and US Space Command have conducted the first UK-US joint military operation in space, moving two satellites close together, at an altitude of nearly 36,000 kilometres above the Earth. From 4-12 September 2025, a satellite operated by US Space Command was used to check whether SKYNET 5A, a UK military communications satellite, was operating in orbit as intended. This type of operation, called a ‘Rendezvous Proximity Operation’, involves meticulous and careful planning, with both satellites travelling at around 11,000 kilometres per hour, or about three kilometres per second. This operation was delivered under ‘Multinational Force – Operation Olympic Defender’, a US-led space coalition, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and New Zealand, alongside the UK and the USA. Both the US satellite and SKYNET 5A operate in orbit around the planet in ‘geostationary orbit’. This is a precise orbit, 35,786 kilometres above the Earth’s equator. Operating at this specific altitude allows satellites to remain directly above a particular location on the Earth. Geostationary orbit is often used for communications satellites, so that satellite dishes on Earth can be pointed permanently towards them at a fixed location in the sky. The UK’s first SKYNET communications satellite, SKYNET 1A, was launched in 1969. They also released a press-release. Space is no more “Peaceful” as the world Military starts to show itself multiple times in the missions of the future.