The earliest ASAT testing began during the Cold War, when the success of Sputnik I in October of 1957 catalyzed American fears about the Soviet Union’s potential goal of developing nuclear armed satellites capable of circling the globe.
This article argues that the United States should build upon the momentum started by its 2022 announcement of a unilateral destructive DA- ASAT test ban by calling for a ban on the development and use of all DA- ASAT weapons with caveats to preserve national ballistic missile defense systems.
A detailed overview of the United States’ history with direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) systems, including Cold War tests, 1980s air-launched weapons, and modern missile defense interceptors with latent ASAT capability.
There is growing momentum behind a global moratorium on destructive kinetic anti-satellite (ASAT) tests. A few days ago, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution calling for a ...
WASHINGTON — The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution calling for a halt to one type of anti-satellite (ASAT) testing, a largely symbolic move intended to support broader space ...
Debris (in red) from China's January 2007 ASAT test, seen in this visualization with other objects in low Earth orbit nearly one year later. Credit: AGI Updated 6:20 p.m. Eastern with NASA statement.
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes.
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US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons “They’re putting operational systems up within orbit reach of our high-value satellites.”