Ensuring Ukraine’s Military Security in the Space Industry: Global Experience and Prospects for Developing National Space Forces

The rapid space technologies development, the growth of the space powers number and the private sector activation in the space industry lead to the transformation of space into a strategic arena for ensuring global security. The need to repel russian armed aggression and restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine necessitates a radical improvement of the system of ensuring national security in Ukraine and the reformatting of the domestic defense forces in accordance with the requirements of the war. Today, when russia's aggressive war against Ukraine continues, the issue of creating our state's own Space Forces is acute. The article reviews the world experience of creating Space Forces by leading countries of the world, identifies leaders in the space military race, analyzes the state of the space industry of Ukraine and its main drivers, reveals Ukraine's actions to create the Space Force for the military security of the state, reveals the actions of the central executive power body and military management – the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and all relevant departments regarding the development of the space industry for the next 10 years, until 2035. Research into the space militarization challenges is relevant for the effective tools development aimed at ensuring stability and security in outer space. The future of Ukrainian space military programs lies in cooperation. With Europe, NATO, and those partners who have access to orbital platforms, ground control stations, as well as technologies for orbital monitoring and countering threats in the space environment. Own satellites, integration with European observation constellations, military-space communication systems creation – all these are absolutely real things, provided there is competent synergy between the public and private sectors. In addition to the creation of the relevant Department, there are a number of private companies that are ready to work in this direction and contribute to the development of the Space Forces. And that is why the space forces creation in Ukraine is a necessary response to the realities of the russian-ukrainian war.