{"id":1447200,"date":"2022-04-20T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447200"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:00:20","slug":"vp-harris-announces-u-s-will-no-longer-conduct-tests-of-anti-satellite-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vp-harris-announces-u-s-will-no-longer-conduct-tests-of-anti-satellite-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Harris Announces U.S. Will No Longer Conduct Tests of Anti-Satellite Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvp-harris-announces-u-s-will-no-longer-conduct-tests-of-anti-satellite-missiles%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447200&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Monday that the U.S. will no longer conduct tests of direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, making it the first nation to express such a commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have consistently condemned these tests and called them reckless, but that is not enough,\u201d Harris said during a speech at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. \u201cToday we are going further.\u00a0I am pleased to announce that as of today, the United States commits not to conduct destructive direct-ascent anti-satellite missile testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put: These tests are dangerous, and we will not conduct them,\u201d she added. \u201cWe are the first nation to make such a commitment and today, on behalf of the United States of America, I call on all nations to join us.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p> [embedded content] <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Harris pointed to Russia\u2019s November test of an ASAT missile, which they used to blow up one of their defunct space satellites, <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2021\/11\/reports-russia-shot-down-satellite-us-astronauts-had-to-take-cover-from-space-debris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generating a field of dangerous debris and prompting U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter<\/a> in an escape capsule. Harris also noted a previous 2007 Chinese ASAT missile test that generated a similar field of dangerous space debris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese tests are part of their efforts to develop anti-satellite weapons systems,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThese weapons are intended to deny the United States our ability to use our space capabilities by\u00a0disrupting, destroying our satellites \u2014 satellites which are critical to our national security. These tests, to be sure, are reckless, and they are irresponsible.\u00a0These tests also put in danger so much of what we do in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris said she\u2019d been briefed on the prior Russian and Chinese ASAT tests by the Space Force\u2019s 18th Space Defense Squadron who informed her that they had identified \u201cmore than 1,600 pieces of debris from the Russian test\u201d\u00a0and \u201cover 2,800 pieces of debris still in space from China\u2019s test 15 years ago.\u201d Even small pieces of debris could destroy satellites and potentially kill astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 announcement comes a week after the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) published a report detailing how <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/04\/russia-china-developing-missiles-to-destroy-us-satellites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia and China are continuing to rapidly expand their space capabilities and develop new space weapons<\/a>, including direct-ascent ASAT missiles, ASAT weapons that can be deployed from space, laser dazzlers and satellite hacking tools. <\/p>\n<p>Russia is developing multiple ASAT missile systems for its military including a ground-based mobile missile system called Nudol and an air-launched missile system called Burevestnik, which could be carried by a Russian military aircraft, such as a MiG-31 fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>The DIA report also noted a Chinese satellite currently in operation with a robotic arm that \u201ccould be used in a future system for grappling other satellites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to their various space weapons systems, the DIA report assessed that Russia and China had together grown their fleets of in-orbit space satellites by about 70 percent over a two-year time period between 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Harris said the U.S. will, by contrast, work to establish international norms for space activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we move forward, we will remain focused on writing new rules of the road to ensure all space activities are conducted in a responsible, peaceful, and sustainable manner,\u201d Harris said on Monday. \u201cThe United States is committed to lead the way and to lead by example. The leadership of the United States in space will continue to be a source of strength for us, both at home and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Monday that the U.S. will no longer conduct tests of direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, making it the first nation to express such a commitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}