Anti-satellite missiles can be launched from fighter jets and are generally hit-to-kill weapons that destroy satellites by flying into them.

美国陆军动能反卫星计划(KE-ASAT)自1989年开始实施，旨在将此前为"战略防御倡议"和其它空间与导弹防御研究计划开发的各项技术进一步深化。该计划 ...

The kinetic energy anti-satellite (or KE-ASat, as it’s commonly known) is a space weapon, designed and built by the Army, with one destructive purpose: ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Birmingham, Ala., has decided not to prosecute the former manager of the Army's Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite (KE-ASAT) program, possibly clearing the way for him to ...

In their letter, “Kill the KE-Asat” [April 4, page 34], Michael Krepon and Michael Katz-Hyman raise the old issue of space debris as a reason to kill the U.S. Army’s KE-Asat program. But ...

While the idea of a kinetic energy anti-satellite weapon continues to be studied, its use against enemy spacecraft might ultimately result in loss of friendly satellites, the head of U.S. Space ...

ASAT TESTS AND EFFECTS. On November 15, 2021, a Russian ASAT test destroyed a Russian satellite, Cosmos 1408. Cosmos 1408 had a mass of about 4,850 pounds and was in LEO at an altitude of about ...