Anti-satellite weapon
Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons created to destroy satellites for strategic or tactical[1] purposes. 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 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
A 1986 DIA illustration of the IS system attacking a target
Soviet Terra-3 Ground-based-laser- ASAT
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
Microsat-R in satellite preparation facility.
References
- ↑ Friedman, Norman (1989). The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems. The Naval Institute Guide To... Series. Naval Institute Press. p. 244. ISBN 9780870217937. Archived from the original on 22 November 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
That distinction in turn should help differentiate naval ASAT, as a tactical operation, from strategic-warning ASAT [...].
- ↑ Strout, Nathan (2020-12-16). "Space Command calls out another Russian anti-satellite weapon test". C4ISRNET. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ↑ "Russia conducts space-based anti-satellite weapons test". United States Space Command. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ↑ "anti-satellite Archives". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2021-01-06.[dead link]
