How to Use anti-satellite in a Sentence

anti-satellite

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• Yet much has changed since China’s first anti-satellite test in 2007.
  — R. Lincoln Hines, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
• This is a reversal of the country's long-standing policy against anti-satellite weapons.
  — Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
• In 2007, China destroyed one of its own spacecraft in an anti-satellite missile test.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2024
• Shenlong's orbital work therefore worries some experts, who cite its anti-satellite potential.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• The laser weapons were originally built as anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
• While Russia has invested in anti-satellite missiles, lasers, and electronic weapons, none of these are suited for taking down a swarm.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
• But Russia seems to have a unique theory for the use of anti-satellite, or ASAT, weapons.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
• Circumstantial evidence suggests this, too, may be part of a Russian anti-satellite system.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026
• Some of this meandering mess is the result of the deliberate demolition of spacecraft by way of anti-satellite weapons testing.
  — Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2025
• In 2007, China blew up a defunct Fengyun-1c weather satellite to test an anti-satellite weapon.
  — R. Lincoln Hines, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
• That debris has been created by collisions, explosions between satellites and anti-satellite weapons tests that have occurred over the last several decades.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2025
• The uptick in space junk is primarily due to debris-generating events, such as anti-satellite tests or occasional explosions.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
• The satellites have done so before to avoid colliding with debris from a 2021 Russian anti-satellite missile test.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 9 Aug. 2024
• The satellites are smaller and therefore cheaper to produce and launch, and networked services are less vulnerable to disruption, such as by space weather or anti-satellite weapons.
  — WIRED, 13 June 2023
• And then Russia back in 2021, in November, another anti-satellite test.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
• Countries across three continents are spending $2 trillion on a new, technological arms race, according to Bloomberg, including anti-satellite weapons to counter threats from space.
  — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 July 2026
• As an anti-satellite system, Meadowlands' core function is to counter hostile satellites and other orbital assets using electromagnetic beams.
  — David Szondy july 06, New Atlas, 7 July 2026
• Russia’s Nivelir anti-satellite missions also launch from Plesetsk, the primary launch base for Russia’s military space program.
  — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
• And recent discussions of anti-satellite weapons renewed fears of deliberate actions designed to wreak economic havoc by knocking out GPS.
  — Michael J. Biercuk, Fortune, 18 July 2024
• In 2007, the Chinese military tested its anti-satellite technology by launching a kill vehicle at one of its own defunct weather satellites.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
• Intelligence officials assessed that starting with private engagement on the Russian anti-satellite threat could have been a more effective approach, Kirby said.
  — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2024
• Then there is the problem of protecting these interceptors, sensors, and communications satellites from enemy anti-satellite weapons – not to mention how to deal with decoys and other deception devices.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
• There are many ways to attack another state’s satellites, such as anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons, which are often designed to physically destroy or disable the spacecraft.
  — Sharon Lemac-Vincere, WIRED, 29 June 2024
• Of course, with reports of Russia developing an anti-satellite nuclear weapon, members of Congress and the media have focused their attention on space defense and military readiness.
  — Cheyenne Black, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
• Marshall’s ongoing drive to end the military conflict in Ukraine, and to halt the testing worldwide of anti-satellite missiles, in some ways resembles Einstein’s earlier campaign to abolish nuclear super-bombs.
  — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink.
  — Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025
• In April 2022, the United States committed to not conducting debris-generating direct-ascent anti-satellite tests.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2023
• Both Russia and China have tested anti-satellite weapons and recently Russia has been accused of tracking and interfering with NATO satellites.
  — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
• As China develops anti-satellite weapons and Russia perfects electronic warfare tactics, the US military is making a strategic bet on navigation systems that adversaries cannot silence.
  — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
• That led to the White House declassifying intelligence that Russia's pursuing an anti-satellite capability, serious concern.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2024