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ANTISATELLITE WEAPON [9 records]

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Record 1 2020-07-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Space Warfare
DEF

A weapon designed to be used against artificial satellites.

CONT

The Air Force has plans for a variety of weapons to protect U.S. satellites, and to destroy or disable enemy satellites. They are known collectively as anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. Some would be based in space. Others would be on the ground, on ships, or mounted on airplanes. Some would be directed energy weapons (lasers or high-powered microwaves). Some would have explosive warheads, and some would destroy a target by running into it.

OBS

anti-satellite weapon; ASAT weapon: terms extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Guerre spatiale
DEF

Système d'armes chargé de détruire, d'endommager ou de perturber le fonctionnement normal ou de modifier la trajectoire de satellites artificiels.

CONT

Les scientifiques de nombreux pays essaient de mettre au point des techniques susceptibles d'atteindre, depuis le sol terrien ou l'espace, les satellites «gênants». On les nomme ASAT (armes anti-satellites). Elles peuvent être constituées de satellites tueurs, de missiles lancés par avion et de tirs lasers.

OBS

arme antisatellite; arme ASAT : termes tirés du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas de armas
  • Guerra espacial
DEF

Arma espacial diseñada para incapacitar o destruir satélites con fines estratégicos militares.

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Record 2 2010-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
DEF

Ground-based interceptor that could be launched atop existing ICBMs [intercontinental ballistic missiles] designed to destroy or temporarily disable hostile satellites, using hit-to-kill technology.

Key term(s)
  • kinetic energy antisatellite weapon

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales
DEF

Intercepteur basé au sol pouvant être lancé par des ICBM [missiles balistiques intercontinentaux] existants afin de détruire ou mettre temporairement hors d'usage des satellites hostiles en utilisant la technologie de la destruction par impact direct.

Key term(s)
  • arme antisatellite à énergie cinétique

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Space Warfare
Key term(s)
  • ground based antisatellite weapon
  • ground based anti-satellite weapon

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Guerre spatiale

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
  • Space Warfare
CONT

China has developed a space-based anti-satellite weapon whose name translates as "parasitic satellite" or alternatively "piggyback satellite". ... Supposedly this "parasitic satellite" can orbit close to an enemy satellite and then "lock onto it".

Key term(s)
  • space based anti-satellite weapon
  • space based antisatellite weapon

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales
  • Guerre spatiale

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Space Warfare
CONT

A destructive antisatellite (ASAT) interceptor weapon that destroys the target satellite on impact is an example of an offensive capability that could be developed by the United States.

Key term(s)
  • anti-satellite interceptor weapon

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Guerre spatiale
DEF

Arme à énergie cinétique capable d'attaquer et d'endommager un satellite.

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
  • Space Warfare
Key term(s)
  • low orbit antisatellite weapon
  • low orbit anti-satellite weapon
  • low-orbit anti-satellite weapon

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales
  • Guerre spatiale

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Space Warfare
Key term(s)
  • antisatellite weapon system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Guerre spatiale

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
  • Lasers and Masers

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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Record 9 1987-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Space Weapons
  • Lasers and Masers

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes orbitales
  • Masers et lasers

Spanish

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