Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan warned any nations contemplating ...
MIAMI - Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan warned any nations contemplating anti-satellite weapons tests like the one India carried out on Wednesday that they risk making a “mess” in space because of debris fields they can leave behind.
“My message would be: We all live in space, let’s not make it a mess. Space should be a place where we can conduct business. Space is a place where people should have the freedom to operate,” Shanahan said. In Washington, a senior U.S. military official told lawmakers that the United States was tracking about 270 objects from India’s test, a number that would likely grow as the fragments spread out.
The United States ran the first anti-satellite test in 1959, when satellites themselves were rare and new.
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