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 -
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 -
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 -
And then Russia back in 2021, in November, another anti-satellite test.
— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
In April 2022, the United States committed to not conducting debris-generating direct-ascent anti-satellite tests.
— Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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