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Showing posts with label anti-satellite test. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-satellite test. Show all posts
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
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.
* US blasted Russia for 'dangerous and irresponsible behavior' after Russians conducted anti-satellite weapons test, endangering International Space Station
* US investigating a 'debris-generating event in space' after astronauts on the ISS were forced to prepare for a possible evacuation
* It came amid unconfirmed reports that Russia performed an anti-satellite weapon test
* The space junk passes started early Monday, with the ISS making closes passes every 90 minutes
* The tests have been criticized by the space community because of the risk they create for crews in low Earth orbit
* NASA has not yet commented, but its Russian counterpart Roscomos, downplayed the incident
* Tensions between Russia and the West have escalated in recent weeks as Kremlin has been accused of fomenting instability on Belarus-Poland border
* American officials have also grown alarmed over satellite images said to show a buildup of Russian military personnel along its frontier with Ukraine
The United States has lashed out at Russia's 'dangerous and irresponsible behavior' for conducting an anti-satellite weapons test that created a field of 1,500 pieces of debris endangering the crew of the International Space Station.
Tensions between the United States and Russia have escalated in recent days as Moscow is being blamed for fueling a migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border.
Biden administration officials have also grown alarmed at the massing of Russian military forces near the Ukrainian frontier - prompting officials in Kiev to warn that the Kremlin seeks to 'shatter Europe.'
The crew of the International Space Station boarded two spacecraft which could be used as lifeboats to bring them back to Earth in an emergency. File photo: AFP
* The US is investigating a 'debris-generating event in space' after astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to prepare for a possible evacuation
* It came amid unconfirmed reports that Russia had carried out an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) test
* The tests is a rare show-of-force demonstrations criticized by the space community because of the risk they create for crews in low Earth orbit
* NASA has not yet commented, but its Russian counterpart Roscomos, downplayed the incident
The United States said Monday it was investigating a 'debris-generating event in outer space' after astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to prepare for a possible evacuation.
It came amid unconfirmed reports that Russia had carried out an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) test - rare show-of-force demonstrations criticized by the space community because of the risk they create for crews in low Earth orbit.
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