Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes. Although no ASAT system...

Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. They include weapons that can attack space systems in orbit (for example, anti-satellite weapons), attack...

orbit. Prime examples are the anti-satellite weapon tests. There have been no observed collisions between natural satellites, but impact craters may show...

is a noteworthy list of satellites: Microsat-R satellite was launched and it served as a target for Indian anti-satellite weapon experiment in which it...

China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C (COSPAR 1999-025A) polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series...

А-235 / ПЛ-19-181М / Нудоль) is a Russian hypersonic anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite weapon system in development. It is designed to deflect a...

kinetic energy weapons accelerated by a rocket engine. It has been used primarily in the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) and anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) fields...

A laser weapon is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military...

Russia is developing nuclear anti-satellite weapons. On 15 November 2021, the Ministry of Defence conducted an anti-satellite missile test with the PL-19...

an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) during an operation code named Mission Shakti (IAST: Śakti; lit. "Power"). The target of the test was a satellite present...

development of anti-satellite weapons. The first US anti-satellite weapon was the Bold Orion Weapon System 199B (also the High Virgo missile, Weapon System 199C...

the building blocks necessary" to integrate an anti-satellite weapon to neutralise hostile satellites in low earth and polar orbits. India is known to...

Air-to-surface missile Anti-submarine missile Surface-to-air missile Man-portable air-defense system Anti-ballistic missile Anti-satellite weapon Surface-to-surface...

trajectory. Most anti-tank and anti-ship missiles are part of surface-to-surface missile systems. An anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) is a space weapon designed to...

potentially, weapon delivery. Other satellites include the final rocket stages that place satellites in orbit and formerly useful satellites that later...

linked to a Russian program aimed at developing a nuclear anti-satellite weapon (ASAT). The satellite is believed to serve as a research and development platform...

dismissed the concept as "outlandish" and vulnerable to attack by anti-satellite weapons. The SDI Office (SDIO) was similarly dismissive of the concept....

another large space debris creation event ASM-135 ASAT – first-known anti-satellite weapon test Kessler syndrome (ablation cascade) – a positive feedback loop...

ASAT can mean: Anti-satellite weapon ASM-135 ASAT, an air-launched anti-satellite multi-stage missile Aspartate aminotransferase, an enzyme in amino acid...

United States was able in the 1980s to develop ground-to-space laser anti-satellite weapons. None of these systems are known to be active today; however, a...

emitters. Anti-satellite weapons – target orbiting satellites. Anti-ship weapons – target ships and vessels on water. Anti-submarine weapons – target submarines...

their trajectory, including those of ICBMs. It may also act as an anti-satellite weapon. The Indian Prithvi Defence Vehicle Mark 2 has the capability to...

of a prototypical anti-satellite weapon system. The site was abandoned and is now partially disassembled. Development of laser weapons in the Soviet Union...

may serve as an anti-satellite weapon, which would make Israel one of the world's few countries capable of destroying orbiting satellites. In August 2008...

before becoming inactive and left in orbit. The satellite was destroyed in a Russian anti-satellite weapon test on 15 November 2021, resulting in space debris...

The first military satellites were photographic reconnaissance missions. Some attempts were made to develop satellite based weapons but this work was halted...

Development Organisation (DRDO) now feels it can fashion deadly anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons in double-quick time. Agni V gives you the boosting capability...

in-orbit explosions. Some were deliberately caused during the 1960s anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) testing, and others were the result of rocket stages blowing...

The first model of the Soviet Istrebitel Sputnikov missile; see anti-satellite weapon Nikitin IS-1, a retractable wing fighter aircraft ISI (disambiguation)...

first anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM). The DF-21 has also been developed into a space warfare-capable anti-satellite weapon/anti-missile weapon carrier...