MOSCOW, 16 APR — RIA Novosti. , the Space command of the US air force claims that Russia spent Wednesday testing anti-satellite missile direct interception.
“Space command U.S. air force know and follow the test of Russian anti-satellite missile direct interception, held on 15 April,” reads the statement command.
“the Russian test DA-ASAT (anti-satellite missile direct interception) shows another example that threats to space systems of the USA and allies is real, serious and growing”, — said the head of the space command of the U.S. air force John Raymond.
the report notes that the U.S. is ready to “deter aggression and protect the nation,” allies and US interests from hostile acts in space.
in the USSR In 1980-ies on duty was a system of anti-space defense (the “Fighter satellites”). The complex included booster “Cyclone-2” with space device-interceptor, displayed into orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome. During the tests of the complex was conducted a successful intercept in orbit other Soviet satellites-targets.
In September 1985 the U.S. through highly mobile anti-satellite missile ASM-135 ASAT, launched from F-15, at an altitude of 555 km was hit by its scientific Solwind astrophysics satellite. In February 2008, the us shipborne antimissile SM-3 at an altitude of 247 kilometers had been successfully destroyed a military satellite USA-193.
In January 2007, the China anti-satellite missile, launched from the Xichang launch site, was struck by its weather spacecraft Fengyun-1C at a height of 865 kilometers. As a result, an orbit is formed a cloud of more than 2,000 debris that makes space vehicles to perform evasive maneuvers from them.
In March 2019 India was shot down by an antimissile your military satellite remote sensing of the Earth Microsat-R on an orbit height of about 270 kilometers.
