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The Evolving Landscape of Anti-Satellite Warfare
Human beings have been fighting on land, sea, and air for a long time. Now, the battleground has expanded to the realm of space, with the emergence of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. These weapons, capable of temporarily impairing or permanently destroying orbiting satellites, have become a growing concern as conflicts on Earth increasingly spill over into the domain of space.
The Familiar and the Futuristic
In the realm of anti-satellite warfare, we come across a number of technologies, some of which are quite familiar, while others are straight out of science fiction movies. The familiar technologies include ground-based lasers, which can be used to dazzle or blind satellite sensors, and kinetic kill vehicles, which physically collide with and destroy their targets.
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