Publication

Dec 2007

This report examines whether Iran could use its modest missile capability to project a viable Anti-Satellite (ASAT) threat to US low-earth orbit satellites. The study suggests that, even if Iran has an intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM), it would not be easy for it to leap-frog the technology gap from a ballistic missile to an ASAT capability.

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Author Jaganath Sankaran
Series CISSM Working Papers
Publisher Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)
Copyright © 2007 Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)
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