On Nov. 15, 2021, U.S. officials announced that they had detected a dangerous new debris field in orbit near Earth. Later in the day, it was confirmed that Russia had destroyed one of its old ...

Russia's co-orbital satellite tactics are redefining space deterrence and signaling a more aggressive phase in orbital ...

Recent satellite images taken by Planet Labs in May and June 2025 reveal large-scale construction at five secret nuclear ...

If Russia were to share that kind of satellite technology to North Korea, it could also use it to make its missiles a potential threat to the U.S. homeland, Albright said.

Tangent. A nuclear weapon launched into space would violate the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, a United Nations resolution Russia signed that prohibits countries from placing nuclear weapons or similar ...

New images assessed by Business Insider show new roadworks, buildings, and modifications, with some sites undergoing rapid ...

Russian and Chinese anti-satellite weapons were cited as one of the reasons why the US needed a military branch focused on space, prompting the creation of the Space Force which Raymond now leads.

Anti-satellite missiles can be launched from fighter jets and are generally hit-to-kill weapons that destroy satellites by flying into them.

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 ...

The Chinese tech in question is the SC-19 anti-satellite weapon.The SC-19 is launched from a mobile missile launcher and lofted into space by a modified DF-21 medium range ballistic missile (see ...

The test of the anti-satellite weapon, or ASAT, early Monday scattered hundreds of thousands of pieces into space, some 1,500 hundred of them big enough to track, State Department spokesperson Ned ...

A fresh spat between Washington and Moscow has raised alarm about the potential risk of a space-based nuclear satellite attack which could cause chaos to critical communications systems on Earth ...