Congress has long appreciated the risks that anti-satellite weapons pose to American communications.
The development and design of anti-satellite weapons has followed a number of paths.
The biggest impact was to Program 437, a defense project that used anti-satellite weapons, with facilities and guidance computers destroyed.
China is developing anti-satellite weapons and plans to make the navigational Beidou system global by 2020.
They have also developed an anti-satellite weapon Soviet dependence on system has to be evaluated in terms of:
Both Washington and Moscow have worked on anti-satellite weapons.
Starting in the late 1950s, the United States began development of anti-satellite weapons.
He strongly advocated the building of advanced arms like anti-satellite weapons.
Canceling the Army's anti-satellite weapon would save an additional $2 billion.
This reduces the risk of the Soviet Union destroying the complete network with anti-satellite weapons.