SWF Announces the Release of the 2025 Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment

Thursday, April 3, 2025

The Secure World Foundation (SWF) is proud to announce the release of its annual report, “Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment.” Edited by SWF Chief Director, Space Security and Stability Victoria Samson and supported by Dr. Laetitia Cesari, a noted space security researcher and legal practitioner, this report compiles and assesses publicly available information on the counterspace capabilities being developed by twelve countries across five categories: direct-ascent, co-orbital, electronic warfare, directed energy, and cyber. It assesses the current and near-term future capabilities for each country, along with their potential military utility. Countries covered in this report are divided up into those who have conducted debris-causing anti-satellite tests (the United States, Russia, China, India) and those who have not but are developing some sort of counterspace capabilities (Australia, France, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and the United Kingdom).

The report meticulously updates each country's developments and introduces new analyses;  a complete list of changes can be found in the executive summary.  This is the eighth annual edition of the report; the full 2025 report and the Executive Summary, along with previous years’ editions, can be found at: 

http://www.swfound.org/counterspace.

Translations of the 2025 Executive Summary into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish will be available in May.

For more information, please contact Ms. Victoria Samson.