How to Use anti-satellite in a Sentence
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The laser weapons were originally built as anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
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As early as 1959, the U.S. began developing anti-satellite missiles, fearful the Soviets might be about to do the same.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 15 Feb. 2024
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While Russia has invested in anti-satellite missiles, lasers, and electronic weapons, none of these are suited for taking down a swarm.
—Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
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And then Russia back in 2021, in November, another anti-satellite test.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
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The Takeaway China’s development of anti-satellite weapons is aimed, like a laser, at eviscerating the U.S. military’s ability to fight at long ranges.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
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The satellites are smaller and therefore cheaper to produce and launch, and networked services are less vulnerable to disruption, such as by space weather or anti-satellite weapons.
—WIRED, 13 June 2023
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Of course, with reports of Russia developing an anti-satellite nuclear weapon, members of Congress and the media have focused their attention on space defense and military readiness.
—Cheyenne Black, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
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In April 2022, the United States committed to not conducting debris-generating direct-ascent anti-satellite tests.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
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Intelligence officials assessed that starting with private engagement on the Russian anti-satellite threat could have been a more effective approach, Kirby said.
—Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
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Last week, congressional leaders revealed that Russia has developed a nuclear anti-satellite weapon, which highlights just how disturbingly vulnerable the U.S. is in space.
—Andrew Follett, National Review, 21 Feb. 2024
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The country has highly developed anti-satellite weapons, including a missile system tested in November 2021 that generated thousands of bits of debris in orbit.
—WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
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While China demonstrated its anti-satellite capabilities back in 2007 by using a missile to destroy one of its own satellites, knocking out an entire low-Earth orbit constellation would be more difficult, Matossian said.
—Cindy Wang, Fortune, 6 July 2023
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The initiatives the United States has pursued—advances in anti-submarine and anti-satellite warfare, in missile accuracy and potency, and in wide-area remote sensing—have rendered Russia’s nuclear forces all the more vulnerable.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
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Recent Russian anti-satellite missile testing—which typically involves shooting down old satellites from Earth—has also created space debris that has endangered astronauts and forced them to shelter, according to US officials.
—Rebecca Heilweil, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2024
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That led to the White House declassifying intelligence that Russia's pursuing an anti-satellite capability, serious concern.
—CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024
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