TY  - BOOK
AU  - POLLPETER Kevin
TI  - Motives and implications behind China's ASAT test
PY  - 2007///
KW  - ANTI SATELLITE MISSILES
KW  - CHINA
KW  - BALLISTIC MISSILES
KW  - MILITARY USE OF SPACE
N2  - on 11th January 2007 China's military conducted an anti-satellite missile test in which an aging weather satellite was destroyed at an altitude of 537 miles above the earth. This article identifies a number of questions raised by the event including international space cooperation, non military use of space, and the extent of political versus military power in China
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