Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the U.S. is planning to launch a constellation of satellites this summer to track Chinese or Russian space vehicles that can potentially disable or damage orbiting objects. 

Dubbed as "Silent Barker," the U.S. satellite network would be the first of its kind to complement ground-based sensors and low Earth orbit satellites, according to the U.S. Space Force and analysts, and the satellites will be placed about 35,400 kilometers above the Earth at the same speed it rotates, known as geosynchronous orbit. 

"This capability enables indications and warnings of threats" against high-value U.S. systems and will "provide capabilities to search, detect and track objects from space for timely threat detection," the U.S. Space Force said in a statement.

Silent Barker is a response to efforts by China and Russia to develop systems capable of being launched into orbit and taking out other satellites, something that's a growing concern to the U.S., according to Bloomberg.

At the beginning of 2022, U.S. media once hyped that China's Shijian-21 satellite "seems to be playing the role of a space tugboat," dragging a failed BeiDou navigation satellite from the crowded geosynchronous orbit, and such capability could be used for "military purposes."

However, Song Zhongping, a military expert warned that U.S. is just using the "China threat" as an excuse to launch new satellite networks, as he believed the U.S. is looking for opportunity to strengthen its space-based offensive and defensive capabilities to build a more advanced early-warning network which monitors all spacecraft, Global Times reported.

Mr. Song also warned that such act of burgeoning extra-terrestrial contest between superpowers may ultimately turn space into an arena for arms race.