Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical purposes. Although no ASAT system...

These prototypes eventually evolved into the Brilliant Pebbles program. Brilliant Pebbles was a non-nuclear system of satellite-based interceptors designed...

thrust into space and the launch vehicles used to place satellites into orbit. This delta later evolved into the U.S. Space Force's seal and its logo in 2020...

Mainland China. Inmarsat networks provide existing, evolved, and advanced services. Existing and evolved services are offered through land Earth stations...

launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government. It provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies...

critical domain in both conflict and international strategic competition. The PLA operates a various satellite constellations performing reconnaissance, navigation...

people. Originally conceived as a satellite TV channel delivering Arabic news and current affairs, it has since evolved into a multifaceted media network...

constellation was completed in 1993. The Military Strategic and Tactical Relay, or Milstar, strategic satellite communication program was started in 1982. The...

missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and strategic bombers with nuclear bombs and missiles. Countries build nuclear triads...

without population overflights. This same geographic feature also enabled satellites to be launched into polar orbit directly toward the South Pole without...