fired from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia shot down a long-dead Tselina-D radio-surveillance satellite put in orbit by the Soviet Union decades ago. The intercept, which took place over the Arctic Ocean, was timed so as to
posed to other man-made objects in space, including the International Space Station, which sits on a different orbit dozens of miles higher.
. “Russia’s dangerous and irresponsible behavior jeopardizes the long term sustainability of outer space and clearly demonstrates that Russia’s claims of opposing the weaponization of space are disingenuous and hypocritical.”
on Washington’s long history of militarizing space, one particularly heinous example stands out: the 1962 Starfish Prime test.
. “This result contravened all our predictions.”
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when they impact the Earth’s magnetosphere. Two thousand miles away in Fiji, the show was described as “breathtaking.”
ballistic missile interceptor be kept active at all times at the US missile base on Kwajalein Atoll, ready to be deployed against Soviet satellites at a moment’s notice if necessary. The US also used its Thor missiles in an ASAT role into the 1970s, before developing a special ASAT missile that could be fired by an F-15 Eagle fighter jet – the ASM-135 – in 1985.