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Defense One: Pentagon Scrambles to Defend ‘Juicy Targets’ After Rivals’ Space Tests
U.S. Space Force is taking Russia’s destruction of its own satellite as a warning.
Russia’s direct ascent anti-satellite launch Monday is adding urgency to the U.S. Space Force’s efforts to better defend U.S. space assets, and has left the Pentagon questioning the implications of Russia’s decision to launch, even when it put its own cosmonauts in danger.
“What we’re seeing Russia demonstrate is a weapon. If they can destroy a Russian satellite, they can destroy an American satellite,” U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. Nina M. Armagno said Wednesday at the Ascend space conference in Las Vegas.
“It’s not just Russia, it’s China as well.”
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Update #1: Pentagon making space assets appear ‘less juicy’ following Russia missile test (Washington Examiner)
Update #2: Pentagon Wants to Make Its Space Assets ‘More Difficult to Find’ After Russia’s Anti-Satellite Test (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: Russia's latest anti-satellite missile test has clearly spooked the Pentagon.
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It looks like the Americans conducted the first anti-satellite tests, but it was the Russians, who first put shrapnel into the sky.
The 1,400-kilogram Russian Co-Orbital ASAT weapon, for example, was designed to approach a satellite within one or two orbits (1.5 - 3 hours), then detonate an explosive that would damage the target with shrapnel. After conducting a series of seven tests from 1963–1971—including five interceptor detonations—the Soviet Union declared the system operational in 1973.
Since 1980 Concerned Scientoids and other Democrats have moaned every time the US conducted such tests.
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