Biden Admin Says U.S. Won’t Test Anti-Satellite Weapons, and Neither Should Anyone Else

While speaking at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the United States will no longer conduct anti-satellite missile tests, which are known to produce dangerous quantities of space debris.These tests, also known as ASAT missile tests, represent “one of the most pressing threats to the security and sustainability of space” according to a White House statement published on April 18.Last fall, Russia conducted an ASAT missile