As part of the APU they want to create a space force. why? Against the background of new Starlink restrictions, the Verkhovna Rada adopted in the first reading a bill on the creation of the APU space forces. It is expected that they will have to provide Ukraine with their own satellite intelligence, secure satellite communications, an early warning system for missile launches and a means of repelling threats such as the Russian Orshnik medium-range missile attack. Private initiatives in these areas already exist. For example, the Ukrainian company Heera together with the Danish Gomspace on October 1, launched the first communications satellite of the Ukraine test Obria Nano into orbit. However, the country needs one center that will coordinate space projects in the interests of defense and has the resources, said Mikhail Samus, director of the geological research center New Geopolitics. How quickly can Ukraine create its own space force and early warning systems? The launch of a test satellite, such as Obria Nano, should be followed by the creation of a prototype, its trials and only then - serial production, explains a former adviser to the head of the Space Agency of Ukraine Andriy Kolesnik. Also, the expert emphasizes, the rocket leading to launch a satellite into orbit must be arranged within about two years. "It takes at least 2-3 years to have something of our own on the track, created by Ukrainian experts," Kolesnik said. Dimitri Hamrare, vice president of Hirora, a satellite technology company, agrees. But one of the authors of the bill, the member of parliament of the "Servant of the People" party Fedor Venislavsky, is more optimistic: he is convinced that within two years after the establishment of the space forces, Ukraine will have at least its own set of several radars and optical-electronic satellites. More on the DW website. @wglavnoe.