U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 19 US Vice President Kamala Harris announced a moratorium on ASAT testing during a visit to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.»These tests are dangerous and we will not to conduct them,» the vice president said. According to her, in this way the US administration wants to write new rules and establish standards for work in space. As the American media specified, the idea of the moratorium arose under the impression hit the inactive spacecraft «Tselina-D». Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu then said that the fragments formed did not pose any threat to space activities. The United States and NATO said the debris cloud was dangerous «for human lives and spacecraft.» The United States previously postponed and then canceled a planned test of the Minuteman III ICBM, stating it wanted to prevent an escalation. Another test is planned later this year Minuteman III.
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