Anti-satellite weapon
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons created to destroy satellites for strategic or tactical[1] purposes. They are launched into space to destroy satellites, typically using the collision alone instead of a bomb inside the weapon. Few counties such as India, Russia, China, and the United States have successfully shot down their own satellites.[2][3][4]
Anti-satellite Weapon Media
A 1986 DIA illustration of the IS system attacking a target
US DIA concept drawing of purported Soviet Terra-3 Ground-based-laser- ASAT
A US ASM-135 ASAT missile
A US Vought ASM-135 ASAT missile launch on 13 September 1985, which destroyed P78-1
A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 launched from USS Lake Erie, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser, 2005
The launch of the SM-3 missile used to destroy USA-193
Known orbit planes of Fengyun-1C debris one month after its disintegration by the Chinese ASAT
The launch of a PDV Mk-II interceptor for an ASAT test in March 2019
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References
- ↑ Friedman, Norman. The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems. The Naval Institute Guide To... Series (1989)Naval Institute Press. p. 244. ISBN 9780870217937. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ↑ Strout, Nathan. Space Command calls out another Russian anti-satellite weapon test (in en-US). C4ISRNET (2020-12-16). Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ↑ Russia conducts space-based anti-satellite weapons test (in en-US). United States Space Command. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ↑ anti-satellite Archives (in en-US). SpaceNews. Retrieved 2021-01-06.[dead link]
