October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... that the military threats to space have indeed increased as India, Russia, and China have all tested ASAT systems over this period. However, since 2010 it has become increasingly apparent that far more congestion...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
.... Russia has demonstrated two completely different types of space weapons, the first a type of kinetic weapon which is a DA-ASAT system capable of destroying satellites in LEO and believed to have been tested multiple times. If this weapon is tested...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
... condemned, but this has not stopped nations developing ASAT weaponry. A report recently published by The Space Review3...actually a test of a ballistic missile related to China’s ASAT programme. While this cannot be confirmed, kinetic weaponry of this...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
.... Ground-based weapons can also be used, as the 2007 Chinese ASAT test against a spacecraft in LEO demonstrated. Non-kinetic energy weapons,...the threat posed to space-based objects from ground-based ASAT missiles. The USA was also quick to point out ...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... the rest of the world – that testing of weapons such as ASATs in Earth orbit is self-defeating. The test may be successful in ...-1C debris one month after its disintegration by the Chinese ASAT in January 2007 (showing direction, not scale). The white...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
... political-economy than the military consequences. What spacepower looks like to people on the ground. A Chinese ASAT test graphic from 2007. International challenge Spacepower is an important and diverse source and manifestation of power in the...
