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    The ASM-135 ASAT is an air-launched anti-satellite multistage missile that was developed by Ling-Temco-Vought's LTV Aerospace division. The ASM-135 was...
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  • ASAT can mean: Anti-satellite weapon ASM-135 ASAT, an air-launched anti-satellite multi-stage missile Aspartate aminotransferase, an enzyme in amino acid...
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    the west. A "crash program" followed, which developed into the Vought ASM-135 ASAT, based on the AGM-69 SRAM with an Altair upper stage. The system was...
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    operated until it was destroyed in orbit on September 13, 1985, to test the ASM-135 ASAT anti-satellite missile. The satellite's Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO)...
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    1985, the first anti-satellite (ASAT) missile was used in the destruction of a satellite. The American 1985 ASM-135 ASAT test was carried out, in which...
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    1985, the United States demonstrated its conventional ASAT capabilities by launching an ASM-135 ASAT from an F-15 to shoot down the Solwind P78-1, an American...
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    Air Force. On September 13, 1985, he conducted the test launch of an ASM-135 ASAT missile that destroyed the Solwind satellite. He later served as the...
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    carrier aircraft. The first air-launch-to-orbit was a test launch of the ASM-135 ASAT antisatellite rocket, the first commercial air-launch-to-orbit took place...
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    Red Oak, Texas. LTV XQM-93 M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (1983) ASM-135 ASAT (1984) MGM-52 Lance (1972) SSM-N-8 Regulus (1951) SSM-N-9 Regulus II...
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    Phantom IIs in a skirmish on 5 June 1984. The ASM-135 missile was designed to be a standoff antisatellite (ASAT) weapon, with the F-15 acting as a first stage...
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