{"id":1203304,"date":"2023-11-15T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203304"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:55:00","slug":"space-companies-say-asat-tests-threaten-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203304","title":{"rendered":"Space companies say ASAT tests threaten economic development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/GettyImages-1198473504-800x399-1.jpg\" alt=\"Anti-satellite weapons from Mission Shakti are displayed during Republic Day Parade on January 26, 2020 in New Delhi, India.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1198473504.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"511\" data-width=\"1024\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Anti-satellite weapons from Mission Shakti are displayed during Republic Day Parade on January 26, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (credit: Ramesh Pathania\/Mint via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More than two dozen private space companies have <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/97127ee5541e7f48cb32577fe\/files\/80022d05-2487-daa6-daf7-6b77921c148a\/DA_ASAT_Industry_Statement_11_14_2023.01.pdf?mc_cid=6e86a3ef9c\">signed on to a statement<\/a> that supports an end to destructive anti-satellite testing in space.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes two years after <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/11\/debris-from-a-satellite-shot-down-by-the-russians-appears-to-threaten-the-iss\/\">Russia shot down<\/a> one of its older satellites, Kosmos 1408, with a Nudol missile launched from the ground. The test, intended to demonstrate Russia&#8217;s capability to shoot down assets in space, showered more than 1,500 pieces of debris into low-Earth orbit. This has forced the International Space Station and Chinese Tiangong station to perform avoidance maneuvers, along with many private and government-owned satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is not the only country to perform such tests. India recently did so, and in the more distant past, China and the US have also demonstrated such capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984011#p3\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984011&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space companies say ASAT tests threaten economic development<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Anti-satellite weapons from Mission Shakti are displayed during Republic Day Parade on January 26, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (credit: Ramesh Pathania\/Mint via Getty Images) More than two dozen private space companies have signed on to a statement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203304\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1203304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}