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Anti-Satellite Weapon Tests and Secret Follow-On Systems
The most important thing to understand about anti-satellite history is that the public missile test is only the visible tip. The real continuity lies underneath: tracking networks, kill vehicles, missile-defense derivatives, inspector satellites, rendezvous technologies, and the slow migration of ASAT capability from spectacular demonstrations into more opaque systems that can be described as defensive, servicing-related, or merely experimental until the moment they are not.
Declassified / Satellites/historical record/2026-03-31