Space experts warn threats to satellites could hurt emergency response

When tornadoes and severe storms struck Texas and Louisiana this week, emergency responders were prepared thanks to weather satellite information that gave them a three-day warning. That information might seem routine given the number and sophistication of data-collecting spacecraft orbiting the Earth. But government experts are warning that satellites predicting natural disasters, providing geographic coordinates and allowing cell phone communications are just as vulnerable to foreign threats as military ones. More

(Source: USA Today - Mar 30)