The U.S. Is Done Blowing Up Satellites With Missiles In Tests
The U.S. has made a promise to end destructive direct ascent anti-satellite weapon testing, calling on foreign nations to join them.
Tag: Anti-satellite
Space Force Wants Its Operations To Extend To The Expanse Between Traditional Orbits And The Moon
An Air Force Research Laboratory document makes it clear that Space Force will have to contend much farther out in space than it currently is.
China’s Space Station Is Now Manned As Concerns About Its Space Ambitions Grow
The Shenzhou-12 mission put three astronauts aboard the new Tianhe space station module in a display of just how far China’s space program has come.
New Telescopes Will Help Space Force Watch For Hostile Satellite Activity
Commercially provided daytime-capable telescopes will help give advance warning of attacks on US satellites around the clock.
China Claims It Has Conducted A New Midcourse Intercept Anti-Ballistic Missile Test
China is developing multiple ballistic missile interceptors, some of which could also double as anti-satellite weapons.
Space Force Just Received Its First New Offensive Weapon
U.S. Space Force has begun operating a new offensive weapon system, an upgraded version of a ground-based satellite communications jamming system, for the first time in its short history. The first iteration of the Counter Communications System entered U.S. Air Force service in 2004 and the program has now gotten transferred to the newest branch of the American military.
Russia Just Launched Five Objects Into Space. One Problem, There Were Supposed To Be Four
The available information suggests that the Russians may have put yet another secretive “killer satellite” into orbit.
Exclusive: Russian MiG-31 Foxhound Carrying Huge Mystery Missile Emerges Near Moscow
The big rocket is likely to be either a space-launch system or an anti-satellite weapon, and maybe even both.
Russia Has Four Potential “Killer Satellites” In Orbit, At Least That We Know About
The threat these so-called “space apparatus inspectors” pose is an example of what conflict in space might look like in the future.
Strategic Command Boss Makes Case For Satellites Capable Of Tracking Hypersonic Vehicles
A previously unknown satellite sensor called the Midcourse Tracking Sensor could target ballistic missiles and discriminate between decoys as well.