April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... of the well-intentioned An additional space treaty problem is how to define an anti-satellite (ASAT) system. Any innocent-looking ‘test’ satellite can have true ASAT capabilities hidden inside, such as on-board kinetic projectiles or a low-weight...
28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
... Shakti,” the test now means that India has become the fourth nation in the world with anti-satellite (ASAT) capabilities, after Russia, China and the US. Its target was believed to be either the Microsat-R or the Microsat...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
...this year, India carried out an unexpected anti-satellite missile test by successfully obliterating a low earth...government say the company. Although no satellites are known to have been hit by fragments from India’s ASAT test, data studied by AGI ...
17 November 2021
Debris from destroyed Russian satellite now visible in telescope images
... Russia shot it down during an antisatellite test (ASAT) on 15 November. The test quickly prompted widespread criticism by government officials around the world, most notable the US, as debris from the satellite forced crew members onboard the ISS...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... called Fengyun 1C was targeted and deliberately destroyed at an altitude of 865 km as part of China’s anti-satellite (ASAT) programme, adding about 3000 trackable debris objects and over 150,000 untrackable particles which are ...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... other mission-related objects and 54 per cent fragments - an increase from 41 per cent before China’s anti-satellite (ASAT) test of 11 January 2007. The tracked objects are typically larger than 10 cm in size (1 m in geostationary orbit at 36,000...
