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In February 2022, two days after Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine requested American aerospace company SpaceX to activate their Starlink satellite internet service in the country to replace internet and communication networks degraded or destroyed during the war. [2][3][4] Starlink has since been used by Ukrainian civilians, government and ...
Injured. 151. On 23 June 2024, fragments from a US-provided Ukrainian ATACMS missile that was destroyed by Russian anti-air system fell over a beach in Sevastopol, Ukraine, allegedly killing four or five people and injuring around 151 others. [1]
Anti-satellite weapon. Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic or tactical [1] purposes. Although no ASAT system has yet been utilized in warfare, a few countries (China, India, Russia, and the United States) have successfully shot down their own satellites to demonstrate [2 ...
Satellite images captured on Monday, the day after the alleged attack, show flames and thick clouds of black smoke billowing from the depot. Other satellite images showed the blaze still burning ...
Viasat hack. The Viasat hack was a cyberattack against the satellite internet system of American communications company Viasat which affected their KA-SAT network. The hack happened on the day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. [1] Only the broadband customers were targeted.
The United States Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detects, tracks, catalogs and identifies artificial objects orbiting Earth, e.g. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris. The system is the responsibility of United States Space Command and operated by the United States Space Force and its functions are:
A United States Space Command impression of a conceptual satellite -based directed-energy weapon used to precisely strike targets on Earth. Space weapons are weapons used in space warfare. They include weapons that can attack space systems in orbit (for example, anti-satellite weapons), attack targets on the earth from space or disable missiles ...
Based on its experiences with the launching of short-range theater missiles by Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) concluded that expanded theater missile warning capabilities were needed, and it began planning for an improved infrared satellite sensor capability that would support both long-range strategic and short-range theater ballistic missile ...