The U.S was the first nation to test anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons in 1958 with bomber-launched ASATs, and three other nations have demonstrated the ability to destroy orbiting satellites--Russia, China, and, most recently, India, with a test in March last year. Officials from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force, established last December as the sixth military service, have largely confined themselves to talking about building the resilience and redundancy of U.S. space assets and protecting them from enemy…
