Vice President Harris said at the National Space Council meeting on Friday that the U.S. will bring a resolution to the UN General Assembly. The US would no longer conduct the tests after Harris banned them. The U.S. is hoping that other nations will follow suit.
Harris said that the nation wouldn't conduct destructive, direct-ascent, anti-satellite missile testing. The United States will bring a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly later this month.
It's possible that the U.S. is growing more concerned about its assets in space due to the current tensions between the U.S. and Russia.
Russia destroyed an old satellite with an ASAT missile last year. Hundreds of pieces of space debris were created by the test and forced astronauts and cosmonauts to seek shelter. The debris came as close as 48 feet to the Chinese satellite. The ASAT missile test by Russia was denounced by NASA. The administrator of the space agency said that all nations have a responsibility to prevent the creation of space debris.
Since the end of the Cold War, relations between Russia and the US have been bad. In February, the U.S. President stated that the international sanctions against Russia would affect the country's space program. Russia has threatened to pull out of the International Space Station and even revealed a model of its own space station to compete with the current one. Russia recently launched a spy satellite that may have been used to spy on a U.S. military satellite.
It is unsurprising that the U.S. wants to protect its assets in space. Will the same thing happen in other nations? It is not a guarantee that China and India will agree to the proposed U.N. resolution. When this resolution reaches the General Assembly later this month, it's unlikely that a unanimous decision will be achieved because the U.S. has the most to lose when it comes to space.
There is a 5-year deadline for the FCC to deorbit satellites.
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