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    The ASM-135 ASAT is an air-launched anti-satellite multistage missile that was developed by Ling-Temco-Vought's LTV Aerospace division. The ASM-135 was...
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    the west. A "crash program" followed, which developed into the Vought ASM-135 ASAT, based on the AGM-69 SRAM with an Altair upper stage. The system was...
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  • ASAT can mean: Anti-satellite weapon ASM-135 ASAT, an air-launched anti-satellite multi-stage missile Aspartate aminotransferase, an enzyme in amino acid...
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    operated until it was destroyed in orbit on September 13, 1985, to test the ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile. The satellite's Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO)...
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    1985, the first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile was used in the destruction of a satellite. The American 1985 ASM-135 ASAT test was carried out, in which...
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  • AS-20 AS-30 AS.34 Kormoran ASM-1 (Japanese Type 80 air-to-ship missile) ASM-2 (Japanese Type 93 air-to-ship missile) ASM-135 ASAT ASMP Aspide ASRAAM (project...
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  • "History of anti-satellite weapons: US tested 1st ASAT missile 60 years ago". The Week. "Asm-135 Asat". Gordon, Michael R.; Cloud, David S. (23 April 2007)...
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    Phantom IIs in a skirmish on 5 June 1984. The ASM-135 missile was designed to be a standoff antisatellite (ASAT) weapon, with the F-15 acting as a first stage...
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    1985, the United States demonstrated its conventional ASAT capabilities by launching an ASM-135 ASAT from an F-15 to shoot down the Solwind P78-1, an American...
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    carrier aircraft. The first air-launch-to-orbit was a test launch of the ASM-135 ASAT antisatellite rocket, the first commercial air-launch-to-orbit took place...
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    the Eurofighter Typhoon has also been studied for this task (see also ASM-135 ASAT). The Swedish Air Force placed a total order for 204 Gripens in three...
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    ASAT testing had ended. The U.S. Program 437 was shut down in 1975. The U.S. restarted their ASAT programs in the 1980s with the Vought ASM-135 ASAT....
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    Air Force. On September 13, 1985, he conducted the test launch of an ASM-135 ASAT missile that destroyed the Solwind satellite. He later served as the...
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  • Terra-3 Related development Alpha Draco Bold Orion Comparable weapons ASM-135 ASAT GAM-87 Skybolt NOTS-EV-2 Caleb Altitude at which telemetry was lost....
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  • II Vought YA-7F LTV XC-142 LTV L450F Vought Model 1600 MGM-52 Lance ASM-135 ASAT Vought HVM MGM-140 ATACMS LTV XQM-93 Notes Sobel, Robert (1999). The...
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    Terra-3 Related development Alpha Draco High Virgo Comparable weapons ASM-135 ASAT GAM-87 Skybolt NOTS-EV-2 Caleb Ball 1980, p.226. Yengst 2010, p.37. Parsch...
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    Red Oak, Texas. LTV XQM-93 M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (1983) ASM-135 ASAT (1984) MGM-52 Lance (1972) MGM-140 ATACMS (1988) SSM-N-8 Regulus (1951)...
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    also continued the air-launched ASAT program that SAMSO started in 1976, culminating in the development of the ASM-135 ASAT. Its first test was on 21 January...
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    of the OV1 upper stage. It was also used as the second stage of the ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile. It as proposed as the fourth stage for Advanced...
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    development on what would become the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle-launched ASM-135 ASAT and Aerospace Defense Command began a reevaluation of its space defense...
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    anti-satellite missile test – another large space debris creation event ASM-135 ASAT – first-known anti-satellite weapon test Kessler syndrome (ablation cascade)...
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  • (development) ASM-1 (Type 80 air-to-ship missile) ASM-1C (Type 91 air-to-ship missile) ASM-2 (Type 93 air-to-ship missile) ASM-2B ASM-3 ASM-3A (development)...
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    launches (historical U.S. systems have included the Program 437 and the ASM-135 ASAT); and jamming of communications by ground-based means. "Brigadier General...
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    the mission's intent was to preserve human life. Anti-satellite weapon ASM-135 ASAT Bold Orion Militarisation of space Kessler Syndrome Wikimedia Commons...
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    A USAF F-15 Eagle launching an ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile....
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    470 km (290 mi) orbit that was destroyed during a 1985 U.S. Air Force ASM-135 ASAT test 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test Anti-satellite weapon Kill...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kosmos 1408. Spaceflight portal 1985 ASM-135 ASAT test – United States first anti-satellite missile test 2007 Chinese anti-satellite...
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    Force's Blue Scout sounding rocket program. List of sounding rockets ASM-135 ASAT NOTS-EV-1 Pilot Jaguar (American rocket) Scott, Jeff (2006-04-23). "NOTSNIK...
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    nuclear burst destroyed a satellite), the Air Force Systems Command ASM-135 ASAT collided with a satellite in 1984. ADC's Consolidated Command. Control...
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  • CubeSat) Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome Remarks 13 September ASM-135 ASAT Celestial Eagle, Vandenberg US Air Force US Air Force Suborbital Anti-satellite...
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