Questions tagged [anti-sat]
Weapons and activities whose purpose is to incapacitate or destroy satellites normally for military purposes.
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Is India having the military capability to "take out" a satellite in orbit still in question?
BBC News's article SpaceCom: Trump launches space warfare command says at the end:
China, Russia and the US have all tested weapons that are capable of taking out a satellite, according to research ...
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Why the logarithmic spiral for the ASM-135 ASAT's infrared detector?
The Scott Manley video The Only Pilot to Shoot Down A Spacecraft - A Space Ace talks about the ASM-135 ASAT and its successful test launched from an F-15.
He shows images from the page The F-15 ASAT ...
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Are there any other examples of right-angle exhaust diverters in spacecraft?
The Scott Manley video The Only Pilot to Shoot Down A Spacecraft - A Space Ace talks about the ASM-135 ASAT and its successful test launched from an F-15.
He shows images from the page The F-15 ASAT ...
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Could a satellite in GEO-orbit make an evasive maneuver to avoid an anti-satellite impactor?
Communication satellites orbit at an altitude a couple of hundred times above the satellite that the Indian government recently shot down. Also GPS-satellites are about one hundred times further up ...
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India just shot down a satellite from the ground. At what altitude range is the resulting debris field?
This tweet from India's prime minister Narendra Modi says:
मेरे प्यारे देशवासियों,
आज सवेरे लगभग 11.45 - 12.00 बजे मैं एक महत्वपूर्ण संदेश लेकर आप के बीच आऊँगा।
I would be addressing the nation at ...
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