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SPACE-BASED ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPON [1 record]

Record 1 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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