Examples of using Space-based weapons in English and their translations into Russian
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Asteroids- against asteroids we are going to build space-based weapons.
A third project attempts to use space-based weapons to defend satellites from attacks.
Confidence-building Measures: Help orHindrance in Achieving a Space-Based Weapons Ban?
These constraints on miniature space-based weapons will consequently lead to discernable operational signatures for improved space situational awareness assets.
Finally, I would like to mention a fundamental Canadian goal,namely a treaty to ban space-based weapons.
In practice, all three of these obligations are tantamount to prohibiting space-based weapons and prohibiting the use of force against space objects.
That delegation reiterated its call for the negotiation of a multilateral agreement banning all space-based weapons.
Expert presentations on these andother elements of a space-based weapons ban continue to be needed in order to build consensus within the Conference on the way forward.
Within the context of document CD/1679 we propose to deal with weapons placed in outer space,i.e. space-based weapons.
It was felt that the CD would be an appropriate place to negotiate a legally binding ban on space-based weapons as part of an effort to strengthen the multilateral architecture for space security.
CBMs represent one such path, and the establishment thereof would serve as a timely, useful andcomplementary measure to an eventual space-based weapons ban.
That position has not changed for over two decades: all space-based weapons should be banned, and a legal instrument to give effect to this comprehensive ban should be negotiated without further delay.
Within this intellectual structure there are Earth-based weapons andtargets and there are space-based weapons and targets.
Given the current research on lasers, space-based weapons and directed-energy systems, one can foresee the possibility for the emergence of even more potent weapons of mass destruction technologies within the next quarter century.
The view was expressed that awareness of the potential of debris to render space unusable had tempered butnot halted the consideration of space-based weapons.
Earth-based weapons are either land-based,sea-based or air-based while space-based weapons can be thought to consist of all weapons that are not Earth-based weapons. .
One key element of a multilateral architecture for space security will be the negotiation in the CD of an appropriately scoped legally binding ban on space-based weapons.
Thus, space-based weapons capable of damaging or destroying other space objects will likely possess functionally related observable differences that can be used to distinguish them from more benign dual-use satellites.
Note that such an undertaking would again need to be done in conjunction with a prohibition on the placement of weapons in outer space,lest we inadvertently provide a sanctuary for space-based weapons.
In that way, we will be able to ensure that future generations are able, as we are today,to invest their energies not in developing and deploying space-based weapons but, rather, in exploring and using outer space for peaceful purposes, for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and of all humankind.
A key element of a multilateral architecture for space security would be negotiation in the Conference on Disarmament of an appropriately scoped,legally binding ban on space-based weapons.
Turning to the issue of a possible treaty banning space-based weapons, we appreciate the significant contribution China and Russia have made to CD thinking in this regard, including the leadership they showed in producing their joint working paper on elements of a PAROS convention CD/1679.
Ultimately, the cornerstone of a multilateral architecture for space security would be negotiation in the Conference on Disarmament ofa legally binding ban, appropriate in scope, on space-based weapons.
Others expressed the view that a narrow or partial anti-satellite weapon test ban that would ban the testing of a device needed to defeat certain space-based weapons would decrease space security,if were it to proceed before a ban on all space-based weapons.
The basis of the CD/1487 and CD/1569 has been that current international efforts might first seek to concentrate on a non-proliferation agreement concerning the test,deployment and use of all space-based weapons.
The WMD Commission argues that while"there are already a number of international treaties and instruments regulating space activities.they do not cover the challenges posed by space-based weapons or ballistic missile defense.
We call upon all delegations to play their respective parts in enabling the re-establishment of a PAROS ad hoc committee to discuss and consider the possible contributionto international peace and security of a treaty to ban space-based weapons.
Mr. Weeden explained the three general types of potential space weapons: Earth-based weapons that travel through space to targets on Earth,Earth-based weapons that target space-based objects, and space-based weapons that target objects on Earth, in the air, or in space.
Since no conventional weapons have been deployed in orbit around the Earth, tested or used in that domain as of yet, and as the current multilateral legal regime has successfully banned the placement of weapons of mass destruction in orbits around the Earth or their stationing in outer space more generally, current international efforts might first seek to concentrate on a non-proliferation agreement concerning the test,deployment and use of all space-based weapons.