China has injected billions into advancing its homegrown space industry, and now has the second-largest satellite fleet in the world - behind only the US.
But the technology the country is pushing out has spooked defence chiefs in the US, a long-time space-faring nation.
Chinese scientists say they have built a new type of satellite-destroying weapon that converges multiple high-powered microwave beams to take out a single target.
According to a report from South China Morning Post, a pro-China paper, the weapon is a similar concept to the super laser from the Death Star featured in Star Wars.
The space laser has allegedly completed experimental trials on its potential military use.
China has reportedly been developing high-powered microwave (HPM) weapons with the potential to disrupt radar systems, computers, communication infrastructures, and even missiles and satellites.
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