Space weapons

treaty that forms the basis of international space law

defunct American missile defense system (1984-1993)

kinetic energy device designed to destroy satellites in orbit

research aircraft by Boeing

thumb|Line drawing of an Almaz space station thumb|Almaz space station at VDNKh (Russia) The Almaz () program was a highly secret Soviet military space station program, begun in the early 1960s.

Soviet space station launched on 25 June 1974

Silbervogel (German for "silver bird") was a design for a liquid-propellant rocket-powered sub-orbital bomber produced by Eugen Sänger and Irene Bredt in the late 1930s for The Third Reich. It is also known as the RaBo ('''' – "rocket bomber"). It was one of a number of designs considered for the Amerikabomber project, which started in the spring of 1942, being focused solely on trans-Atlantic-range piston-engined strategic bombers such as the Messerschmitt Me 264 and the Junkers Ju 390, the only two airframe types which were actually built and flown for the competition. When Walter Dornberger

methods to prevent destructive asteroid hits

Soviet spacecraft conceived in the late 1960s

missile defense system

Soviet nuclear delivery system

space weapon prototype

U.S. government project to build a conventional weapon that can strike anywhere in the world within an hour

Orbit to planetary surface attack with inert projectiles

type of weapon used in space warfare

use of outer space for military aims

Weapon consisting of a heliostat in orbit around a planet

1970s ballistic missile defense program of the United States Army

U.S. Air Force optical research laboratory

Soviet anti-satellite weapons programme

Terra-3 (Russian: терра–3) was a Soviet laser testing centre, located on the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile (ABM) testing range in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan. It was originally built to test missile defence concepts, but these attempts were dropped after the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed. The site later hosted two modest devices used primarily for experiments in space tracking. Several other laser test sites were also active during this period. During the 1980s, officials within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) suggested it was the site of a prototypical ant

thumb|500px|Phases of a skip reentry Boost-glide, or skip-glide, is a class of atmospheric entry trajectories that follow a non-ballistic trajectory by employing aerodynamic lift in the high upper atmosphere. The term is mostly used to refer to a number of designs that used lift to extend the range of an otherwise shorter-ranged rocket.

former agency of the United States Department of Defense