http://project2049.net/documents/the_great_game_in_space.pdf"Aside from the direct-ascent KKV China has successfully tested, it is also possible that direct-ascent ASATs could be armed with the electro-magnetic pulse (nuclear or non-nuclear) warheads that the PLA is also developing for its anti-ship ballistic missile
(ASBM) program, which is based upon similar technology as China’s ASAT program."
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However, unsubstantiated reports indicate that China is currently developing an improved variant of its basic
solid-fueled launch vehicle, designated the DF-25, that may eventually be able to use a larger first-stage motor based on DF-31 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile/Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (IRBM/ICBM) technology, and an advanced guidance package to target U.S. satellites in GEO. In the interim, China is developing
other ASAT technologies these GEO satellites may potentially be vulnerable to, such as radio frequency, cyber and laser weapons systems.21 China has been devoting significant resources to directed-energy weapons systems"
China has been devoting significant resources to directed-energy weapons systems, particularly ground-based lasers, and have used them to target U.S. reconnaissance satellites. In August and September of 2006, China used high-powered, ground-based
lasers to blind or “paint” U.S. reconnaissance satellites on several occasions as they passed over China. Reports stated that these were either ASAT tests or relatively “low-power” laser ranging devices intended to precisely determine satellite orbits for
ASAT targeting purposes.22"
"According to one account, the “Chinese routinely turn powerful lasers skywards, demonstrating their potential to dazzle or permanently blind spy satellites.” This report went on to quote Gary Payton, a senior Pentagon official who said “They let us see their
lasers. It is as if they are trying to intimidate us.”23 According to a Hong Kong news website, China has at least one very large “ASAT laser artillery” weapon deployed somewhere in its North Western territory, possibly somewhere high in Xinjiang’s Tianshan
Mountains where there would be far less atmospheric interference to deal with.24"
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China has also been developing (and in some cases fielding) cyber warfare units to hack into space control systems; co-orbital ASAT systems to covertly disable enemy satellites;
radiofrequency weapons to jam satellite signals; and high-powered microwave weapons to destroy satellites from Earth. Some of these systems have been in development for over a decade, and the cyber warfare and laser programs are particularly mature.25 In
terms of co-orbital ASAT development, China’s recent BX-1 micro-satellite test, which was carried out as a part of the manned Shenzhou-7 mission, demonstrated technology that can be used as a base for future covert satellite inspection missions, as well as co-orbital
ASAT attacks. The BX-1 test was particularly notable for the fact that it pasted within 25 km of the International Space Station (ISS) in what may have been a simulated attack run.26 In the near future, it is possible that China could use this technology to launch
co-orbital, micro-satellite ASAT weapons from its Xichang Satellite Launch Center (or Base 27) to attack U.S. national security satellites in GEO. Looking longer term, such weapons
could potentially be launched using road-mobile launchers as well. The summation of this broad and assertive Chinese ASAT weapons program is a clear challenge to U.S. space operations, and by way thereof, nearly all modern U.S. war fighting capabilities. This fact
has not gone unnoticed, especially in the Pacific theater of operations, where the U.S. is"
