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Pat Flannery wrote:
The whole F-15 launched satellite interceptor system came and went so
fast that if you' would have missed it if you blinked, and it had the
feel of something that was being used to make the Soviet Union nervous
and bring it to the bargaining table...

There's a piece in the December issue of Spaceflight by Dwayne Day, in
which he makes the interesting point that a good fraction of the US ASAT
activity may have been motivated more by deterring Soviet use of *their*
ASAT systems than by any perceived urgent requirement for antisatellite
capability per se.

considering that it obviously worked, why wasn't it deployed?

Basically, sustained Congressional hostility.

It wasn't terribly expensive, and the
F-15 launch gave it great flexibility in regards to targeting options on
satellites at various orbital inclinations.

Indeed, if you wanted a practical antisatellite weapon, it was obviously
an excellent choice.
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