Ahead of a second session of a U.N. working group on norms of behavior for reducing space threats, U.S. officials say they're working to encourage more countries to join its ban on testing direct-ascent ASATs. Credit: UN
Space.com: US will push other nations to abandon destructive anti-satellite tests, VP Harris says
The U.S. will introduce a resolution to that effect at the United Nations General Assembly this month.
The United States will soon ask other nations to follow its lead and abandon destructive, debris-spawning anti-satellite testing, Vice President Kamala Harris said.
Harris made that pledge for the U.S. five months ago, and she announced a coming and concerted international push on Friday (Sept. 9) during a meeting of the National Space Council (NSC) at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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WNU Editor: Russia and China are not going to sign this test-ban treaty.
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