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82 Nathan Hodge, “Military Postpones Missile-Zapping Test,” e Wall Street Journal, 11 January
2011, online: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/01/11/military-postpones-missile-zapping-test.
83 Peter B. de Selding, “India Developing Anti-Satellite Spacecraft,” Space, 11 January 2010, online:
www.space.com/7764-india-developing-anti-satellite-spacecraft.html.
84 Indian Ministry of Defence, Technology Perspective and Capability Road Map, 24 May 2010.
85 Bharath Gopalaswamya and Ting Wang, “e Science and Politics of an Indian ASAT Capability,”
Space Policy, Vol. 26, Issue 4, November 2010 at 229-235.
86 Ross Liemer and Christopher F. Chyba, “A veriable limited test ban for anti-satellite weapons,”
online: .www.twq.com/10july/docs/10jul_LiemerChyba.pdf p.2
87 Mark Stokes, “Indian Chinese missile defense/ASAT rivalry emerges,” Nonproliferation Policy
Education Center, 23 January 2010, online: www.npolicy.org/node/1227.
88 Xinhua News, “China rearms its missile interception test defensive,” 11 January 2010, online:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/12/content_12797459.htm.
89 Agence France-Presse, “China did not notify US before anti-missile test: Pentagon,”
12 January 2010, online: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5gIyJwTWQjzwLtHke9NhVHNS7qiHQ.
90 Ibid.
91 e Telegraph, “Demarche following China’s January 2010 intercept ight-test,” 2 February
2010, online: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-les/china-wikileaks/8299323/DEMARCHE-
FOLLOWING-CHINAS-JANUARY-2010-INTERCEPT-FLIGHT-TEST.html.
92 Global Security, “Russia to place air and space defenses under unied command in 2011,”
30 November 2010, online: www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/russia/2010/russia-101130rianovosti02.htm.
93 Global Security, “Russian ocer says developing new weapon for space defense,” 15 May 2010,
online: www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/news/2010/space-100515-rianovosti01.htm.
94 Ibid.
95 e Surrey Space Centre’s partnership with China to develop microsatellite technology has caused
much speculation about Chinese ASAT intentions, although there is no evidence of an ocial
Chinese ASAT program. Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.’s CEO posted a statement on its website
that “there have been a number of reports in the press that have portrayed SSTL’s commercial
satellite business with PR China in a very misleading light.… SSTL has carried out two microsatellite
projects for PR China. Both projects are entirely civil in nature and both have been executed
strictly within export controls specically approved for each project by the U.K. government.…
No propulsion technologies or know-how has been provided by SSTL to China and therefore the
satellites supplied by SSTL are not able to be used either as ‘ASAT’ anti-satellite devices nor as a
basis to develop such devices as claimed by some press reports.” See Surrey Satellite Technology
Ltd., “News,” 23 March 2005, online: www.sstl.co.uk/index.php?loc=6. For an analysis of China’s
interest in ASAT weapons, including the Chinese academic debate about this subject, see Phillip
Saunders, Jing-dong Yuan, Stephanie Lieggi, and Angela Deters, “China’s Space Capabilities and
the Strategic Logic of Anti-Satellite Weapons,” Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 22 July 2003,
online: http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/020722.htm. A full description of the Tsinghua-1/SNAP
mission is online: Surrey Space Centre, www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/SSC.
96 eresa Hitchens, Victoria Sampson, and Sam Black, “Space Weapons Spending in the FY 2008
Defense Budget,” Center for Defense Information, 21 February 2008, online: www.cdi.org/PDFs/
Space%20Weapons%20Spending%20in%20the%20FY%202008%20Defense%20Budget.pdf.
97 Jerey Lewis, “NFIRE Kill Vehicle Finally Dead. Really,” Armscontrolwonk–Blog, 23 August 2005,
online: www.armscontrolwonk.com/741/nre-kill-vehicle-nally-dead-really.
98 Justin Ray, “Delta 2 Rocket Puts Military Experiment into Space,” Spaceight Now, 21 June 2006,
online: http://spaceightnow.com/delta/d316.
99 B. Weeden, “e ongoing saga of DSP Flight 23,” e Space Review, 19 January 2009, online:
www.thespacereview.com/article/1290/1.
100 New Scientist, “Spy satellites turn their gaze onto each other,” 24 January 2009, online: www.
newscientist.com/article/mg20126925.800-spy-satellites-turn-their-gaze-onto-each-other.html.