Asat
noun
(in Vedic mythology) the realm of nonexistence, populated by demons.
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Asat
1 American
[uh-suht]
/ ˈʌ sʌt /
noun
Hinduism.
ASAT
2
American
[ay-sat]
/ ˈeɪˌsæt /
abbreviation
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Rayhan Asat, a human rights lawyer of Uyghur heritage, told the wire service.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
Rayhan Asat, a United States-based Uyghur human rights lawyer, said in an email that the protests “present a real but limited opportunity to open the eyes of the Han to what we’ve been going through.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
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
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
Multiple visual simulations of Russia’s anti-satellite, or ASAT, test show a widespread cloud of debris that will likely menace other objects in orbit for years.
From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021
Debris from the 2007 ASAT, for example, remains aloft nearly 15 years later, periodically endangering spacecraft.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
The in-orbit test was described as a “non-destructive” test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon, known as an ASAT, that was carried out July 15.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 23, 2020
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