https://spacewatch.global/tag/co-orbital-asat-weapons/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:00:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/co-orbital-asat-weapons/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/indian-space-wars-indias-drdo-head-outlines-counterspace-capability-ambitions/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=13466 Following its 27 March 2019 direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) missile test that destroyed a target satellite in low-Earth orbit (LEO), the head of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) – G. Satheesh Reddy – has outlined to Indian media his organisation's counterspace technology ambitions for the coming years.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/spacewatchgl-oped-why-space-debris-cleanup-might-be-a-national-security-threat/ Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:00:38 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11519 As an international relations scholar who studies space law and policy, I have come to realize what most people do not fully appreciate: Dealing with space debris is as much a national security issue as it is a technical one.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/04/swgl-oped-insight-global-proliferation-counterspace-capabilities-space-sustainability/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 07:00:59 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=8323 SpaceWatch.Global is a proud partner of the Secure World Foundation, and a greateful recipient of SWF support. The SWF published a new report on 11 April 2018 titled Global Counterspace Capabilities: An Open Source Assessment that provides an exhaustive, comprehensive, incisive, and useful open source guide to global counterspace capabilities and developments, as well as analysis of their implications. Here, the authors of that report, Victoria Samson and Brian Weeden, summarise the study and provide a broader geopolitical context about its importance.]]>