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Asat

1 American  
[uh-suht] / ˈʌ sʌt /

noun

Hinduism.
  1. (in Vedic mythology) the realm of nonexistence, populated by demons.


ASAT 2 American  
[ay-sat] / ˈeɪˌsæt /

abbreviation

  1. antisatellite.


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Rayhan Asat, a human rights lawyer of Uyghur heritage, told the wire service.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

Human rights lawyer and Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow Rayhan Asat:

From Washington Post ● Nov. 7, 2022

Rayhan Asat, a human rights lawyer based in the US whose brother Ekpar Asat has been in a prison camp since 2016, reacted to the report with "complex emotions".

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2022

Rayhan Asat, a lawyer whose younger brother is imprisoned in Xinjiang, said Ms. Bachelet’s comments “show a total disregard for the Uyghur people’s suffering.”

From New York Times ● May 28, 2022

U.S-based human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat — whose brother Ekpar Asat is among more than 1 million Uyghurs that China has imprisoned — was at first aghast.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2022

Two years ago, a normally insouciant defense consultant with a high security clearance told me that a briefing he’d recently received on Russia and China’s anti-satellite, or ASAT, programs left him “shaken.”

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2024

Space Command, told reporters on a teleconference from Hawaii that such ASAT, or anti-satellite, tests congest space with debris.

From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2022

This evening, Vice President Kamala Harris is announcing that the United States will no longer conduct anti-satellite, or ASAT, missile tests — the practice of using ground-based missiles to destroy satellites in orbit around Earth.

From The Verge ● Apr. 18, 2022

Debris from the 2007 ASAT, for example, remains aloft nearly 15 years later, periodically endangering spacecraft.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021

“We see their capabilities from direct-ascent ASAT, antisatellite capabilities, to on-orbit activity that they’ve done with that capability,” he said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2021

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