making access to space increasingly tricky. India’s anti-satellite test underscores the proliferation of dangerous counterspace capabilities.

ASAT testing began during the Cold War, when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union developed the capabilities for attacking other satellites, though they did not develop nuclear weapons in space.

India successfully conducted its first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile weapon test yesterday. The other super powers — Russia, the US and China — also have this capability. The current treaties ...

Further testing refined Asat capability and in 1985, the US shot down a decommissioned satellite 550km above Earth, by firing a missile vertically from an F-15 fighter jet into space. But ...