October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
...and Russia has steadily reconstituted this arsenal. Of worry are Russia’s potential co-orbital anti-satellite weapons (ASATs), capable of rendezvous and proximity operations (RPOs) and space-to-space attack. China entered the counterspace competition...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... kinetic direct-attack methods such as anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles but also through non-kinetic and more limitable... hit satellites at that range. Its 2013 test of an ASAT weapon reportedly propelled a missile approximately 18,600 miles into space,...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... future generations. China has reportedly demonstrated directed energy capabilities, direct ascent anti-satellite missiles, co-orbital ASATs, jamming, dazzling, and cyber attacks, one that even compelled the US to to shut down its weather satellites...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... the pending Artemis Accords. Likewise, events such as India’s 2019 Shakti anti-satellite test (ASAT) and Russia’s alleged Kosmos-2543 ASAT in July 2020 illustrate that the weaponisation of outer space represents a significant threat to present...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... and strategic systems. Just as with physical attacks on space-based assets – such as anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) strikes – cyberattacks have the potential to wreak havoc on strategic weapons systems and undermine deterrence by creating uncertainty...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... high orbits. Counterspace weapons already pose a threat today on-orbit. In 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile (ASAT) test and the world is still tracking orbital debris generated from it. More troubling is that President Xi recently...
