New Chinese technology gives them the ability to launch missiles directly from space and has almost made China invincible. It ...

Last November, three months before Russian forces would invade Ukraine, Russia launched a Nudol missile interceptor that blew up Cosmos 1408, a defunct Soviet satellite, in the process flinging at ...

Focus on the Russian Kalibr missile, a long-range, precision-guided cruise missile that plays a central role in Russia’s ...

A mysterious fighter with a new, large missile suspended underneath could be a Russian anti-satellite weapon. ... started in 1984 and involved a MiG-31D and the Fakel design bureau’s 79M6 missile.

The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Lockheed Martin $2.9 billion in 2018 to design three geostationary satellites, and $4.9 billion in 2021 to build them. Northrop Grumman secured $2.4 ...

While anti-satellite missiles are a major threat, delegates have raised concerns about other potential weapons, too. For example, space systems are vulnerable to electronic and cyberweapons, as ...

Russia tested an anti-satellite rocket on April 15, 2020, U.S. Space Command announced. The test of the PL-19 Nudol, a so-called “direct-ascent anti-satellite” weapon, highlights Russia’s ...

F-15A 76-0086 carrying centerline a CASM-135 ASAT (Anti-Satellite) missile. ... A program was initiated by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to design and construct a weapon to destroy satellites.

On November 15, 2021, Russia launched a Nudol missile at one of its aging satellites in low-Earth orbit. As intended, the missile struck the Cosmos 1408 satellite at an altitude of 480 km ...

In response to the Soviet Union's rapid development of "co-orbital" anti-satellite weapons in the late 1970s -- weapons "designed to reach orbit, sync up with their targets and detonate, sending ...

China is "heavily investing" in both ground-based and space-based weapons that could knock out U.S. satellites, according to Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman.

The type of anti-satellite weapon used in Mission Shakti has similar — although not entirely the same — technology as anti-ballistic missile weapons that the U.S. military fired in a March 25 ...