China’s new radar system is reserved for “friendly countries”

"This radar provides relatively economical ground-based monitoring of space targets to serve friendly countries ... offering situational awareness capabilities against low-orbiting satellites to balance the battlefield posture," CETC deputy manager Sun Rui was quoted as saying by state media. The new system, he said, is particularly equipped to handle constellations of low-orbit surveillance satellites that consist of hundreds of satellites in different orbits, as deployed by the United States. China has a new radar system. KanawatTH/iStock "Our space surveillance radar can detect satellites from a distance and can identify and categorize them to form a radar database that can help…