In the context of the transition to a new political and digital order, to the development of innovative industry and disruptive trends, there are growing concerns about changing the principles of warfare geography, which will be divided not only into familiar forms, front and rear, economic and ideological confrontation, the struggle in the information continuum, and in the future will seriously expand to outer space. The leading space powers are actively developing concepts for conducting combat operations in space, and news about the creation of the latest means of space weaponry is becoming more and more frequent. In this context, it is especially relevant to analyze the balance of power in this area and the prospects of using space as a battlefield in future world conflicts. Earth is not the most peaceful and peaceful place in the universe, only today there are about thirty wars of varying intensity on the entire planet and nothing indicates that in the near future anything will change towards the normalization and stabilization of inter-country relations. On the contrary, tensions between states, especially between the great powers, are growing, which may sooner or later lead to open armed conflict and confrontation. However, even the great military powers such as Russia, China and the United States can not afford to get involved in a global war, because the prospect of complete destruction restrains them from full-scale war with nuclear weapons, they use military force only locally, in particularly difficult cases, when other ways to solve the problem is not possible. In this regard, one of the arenas of such a war could also become space.