October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
...and Russia has steadily reconstituted this arsenal. Of worry are Russia’s potential co-orbital anti-satellite weapons (ASATs), capable of rendezvous and proximity operations (RPOs) and space-to-space attack. China entered the counterspace competition...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... under 10 cm in size. It is not just the satellites themselves that are causing the problem. Anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) tests, in which countries purposefully destroy their defunct satellites, also create space debris. The US tested a kinetic...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... kinetic direct-attack methods such as anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles but also through non-kinetic and more limitable... hit satellites at that range. Its 2013 test of an ASAT weapon reportedly propelled a missile approximately 18,600 miles into space,...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... future generations. China has reportedly demonstrated directed energy capabilities, direct ascent anti-satellite missiles, co-orbital ASATs, jamming, dazzling, and cyber attacks, one that even compelled the US to to shut down its weather satellites...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... the pending Artemis Accords. Likewise, events such as India’s 2019 Shakti anti-satellite test (ASAT) and Russia’s alleged Kosmos-2543 ASAT in July 2020 illustrate that the weaponisation of outer space represents a significant threat to present...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... and strategic systems. Just as with physical attacks on space-based assets – such as anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) strikes – cyberattacks have the potential to wreak havoc on strategic weapons systems and undermine deterrence by creating uncertainty...
