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.”
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.
The Soviets responded with their own ASAT. These were known as co-orbitals which would essentially fly alongside satellites and blow themselves up, taking the satellite with it.
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.
The 5-year-old U.S. Space Force is moving quickly to confront what is becoming its priority challenge: the threat of anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) from foreign adversaries, including Russia and...
Examines U.S. national space policy and military space policy, focusing on the space control debate. It considers the status of space control-related capabilities, such as the antisatellite (ASAT) and national aerospace plane (NASP) programs.
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.