- Anti-satellite
weapons (ASAT) are
space weapons designed to
incapacitate or
destroy satellites for
strategic or
tactical purposes.
Although no ASAT system...
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counterspace capabilities,
which includes direct-ascent
antisatellite missiles, co-orbital
antisatellite systems,
computer network operations,
groundbased satellite...
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satellites Istrebitel Sputnikov, "Destroyer of Satellites", a
series of
antisatellite weapons and
targets Tyazhely Sputnik, "Heavy Satellite", a
failed Venus...
- The
first air-launch-to-orbit was a test
launch of the ASM-135 ASAT
antisatellite rocket, the
first commercial air-launch-to-orbit took
place on 5 April...
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skirmish on 5 June 1984. The ASM-135
missile was
designed to be a
standoff antisatellite (ASAT) weapon, with the F-15
acting as a
first stage. The
Soviet Union...
- range,
while the two most
recent large debris events, the 2007
Chinese antisatellite weapon test and the 2009
satellite collision,
occurred at 800 to 900...
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Initiative (SDI), the
Milstar and DSCS
satellite communication systems, and
antisatellite (ASAT) programs. They
provided planning, design, and
evaluation for...
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Hustler carried out four test
launches to
determine ballistic missile and
antisatellite weapon-system capability. On 1
August 1960, the B-58 was
declared operational...
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India to
declare unilateral moratoriums on
further testing of
their antisatellite weapons.
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media related to
Kosmos 1408. Spaceflight...
- equipment,
either in
support of the
nuclear bomb tests, or in
experimental antisatellite technology.
Eight PGM-17 Thor
missiles deplo**** by the U.S. Air Force...
