WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- The Heritage Foundation issued the following factsheet (No. 224) on Nov. 22, 2021, by John Venable, senior research fellow for defense policy, entitled "Russian ASAT-Test Debris Threatens International Space Station and Escalates Global Tensions".

ASAT is anti-satellite.

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THE ISSUE

On November 15, 2021, Russia fired a direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile from Russian soil that destroyed Cosmos 1408, a . . .

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