Space Weapons

Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. They include weapons that can attack space systems in orbit (i.e. anti-satellite weapons), attack targets on the earth from space or disable missiles travelling through space. In the course of the militarisation of space, such weapons were developed mainly by the contesting superpowers during the Cold War, and some remain under development today. Space weapons are also a central theme in military science fiction and sci-fi video games.

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CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 1 May 2024 English

The PLA will now have a new system of services and arms under the leadership of the CMC. [...] The purpose of this restructuring is being seen as another step …

functions of space operations, like the counter-space weapons, had an overlap between these two departments


AALCO: Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization · 16 April 2024 English

The Verbatim Record of Discussions contains the texts of the statements of the Inaugural Session, the three meetings of the Delegations of the Member States, five general meetings and the …

and characterizing important terms including space weapons, dual-use concept, military use and aggressive


CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 3 April 2024 English

The most effective of all measures such as the TPNWThe most effective of all measures that measures that could be are supported.could be taken – and indeed the logical taken …

A FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER FROM CAPS What are Space Weapons? What are Laws/ highlighted threats from China formally known detonations in outer space and space weapons: “We are as the 1963 Treaty Banning underwater draft resolution would pass. about Russia’s Space Weapons? A US intelligence First Deputy Permanent Representative Polyansky, denounced the week said Russian space weapons pose a serious resolution proposed by the US


CSIS: Center for Strategic and International Studies · 1 April 2024 English

WELCOME TO THE SEVENTH EDITION of the Space Threat Assessment by the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). For the last seven years, CSIS …

Iran possesses DA ASAT or orbital counter- space weapons. SPACE THREAT ASSESSMENT 2024 26 NORTH KOREA most vocal in stating its plans for counter- space weapons development and fielding. In April 2023, the


AALCO: Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization · 21 March 2024 English

The Verbatim Record of Discussions contains the texts of the statements of the Inaugural Session, the three meetings of the Delegations of the Member States, five general meetings and the …

and characterizing important terms including space weapons, dual-use concept, military use and aggressive


American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 7 March 2024 English

A publication of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that explores the traditional nuclear arms control regime, how it has become fractured over time, and the ways in which …

weapons despite their differences on other space weapons, such as anti-satellite weapons.111 Ban prompt Secretary of State Christopher Ford likened space weapons to the human hand, which “with its dexterous Developments of particular concern to them are space weapons, precision strike (including hypersonic) capabilities


CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 26 February 2024 English

This test and the debris thus created garnered plenty of international concern and the question around the declining sustainability of Space resurfaced.8 The test put into question the human-made objects …

Tangalakis-Lippert, “Reports of Russia building nuclear space weapons have alarmed officials, but security experts 19, 2024, Reports of Russia building nuclear space weapons have alarmed officials, but security experts in/international/news/reports-of-russia-building-nuclear-space-weapons-have-alarmed-officials-but-security-experts in/international/news/reports-of-russia-building-nuclear-space-weapons-have-alarmed-officials-but-security-experts


MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 19 February 2024 English

According to the media, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the United States Indo-Pacific Command recently conducted joint patrols in the South China Sea. [...] The close contest between …

China lab simulates attack on US warships using space weapons, hypersonic missiles Stephen Chen South China how the People’s Liberation Army might use space weapons to strike an American aircraft carrier group na-lab-simulates-attack-us- warships-using-space-weapons-hypersonic-missiles China has no intention of ina-lab-simulates-attack-us-warships-using-space-weapons-hypersonic-missiles https://www.scmp.com/ne ina-lab-simulates-attack-us-warships-using-space-weapons-hypersonic-missiles on the moon when others


AALCO: Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization · 8 February 2024 English

The Verbatim Record of Discussions contains the texts of the statements of the Inaugural Session, the three meetings of the Delegations of the Member States, five general meetings and the …

and characterizing important terms including space weapons, dual-use concept, military use and aggressive


CAPS: Centre for Air Power Studies · 4 February 2024 English

As space the nation, and therefore securing our national assets become more integral, the prospect of interests in space comes under the ambit of ‘space consolidating the Air and Space …

degradation via under attack. numbers of counter-space weapons, the Space This type of thinking, while arguably superiority in a high-stakes conflict. counter-space weapons systems to match what Third is the budget for


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