In 2024, seven vehicles in western China each transmitted a high-powered microwave beam that converged precisely in both time ...

There were then several days of comments and speculation about Russia either being ready to launch a nuclear weapon into space, or deploying an anti-satellite weapon powered by nuclear energy.

If a Russian or Chinese Anti-Satellite (ASAT)... General John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United States’ second highest-ranking military officer, retired on ...

Instead, Trump’s order demands the deployment of “space-based interceptors” — a web of satellites, some equipped with lasers. It then calls for the development of another layer of lower-altitude ...

National Security Council John Kirby said Russia is pursuing an “antisatellite capability” that is a serious U.S. concern but doesn’t pose an active threat to the safety of Americans.

Reportedly also relatively compact, the new weapon could prove game-changing for anti-drone and anti-satellite military operations. The weapon is still developing and has not left the laboratory, so ...

More simply put, some Starlink satellites had stumbled into the debris field from a November, 2021 Russian anti-satellite weapons demonstration in which the Kremlin destroyed its own defunct ...

Russia destroyed one of its old satellites during a successful test of an anti-satellite weapon. A space security expert explains what this weapon was and the dangers of the expanding debris field.

The announcement that the U.S. and Japan had circulated a resolution follows White House confirmation last month that Russia has obtained a “troubling” anti-satellite weapon capability ...