On 16 December 2020 Russia conducted another test of its Nudol anti-satellite system. There was no official announcement and the test was disclosed by the U.S. Space Command. Russia, however, did issue a formal NOTAM notification (as it normally does).

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This appears to be the 10th test of the system - a test in June 2019 was planned, but probably didn't take place (it is not in Jonathan McDowell's log of suborbital launches. The first two tests are known to be unsuccessful.

  1. 12 August 2014 - failure
  2. 22 April 2015 - failure
  3. 18 November 2015 - first successful test of the missile
  4. 25 May 2016
  5. 16 December 2016
  6. 26 March 2018 - first test from a mobile launcher
  7. 23 December 2018
  8. June 2019?
  9. 15 November 2019
  10. 15 April 2020
  11. 16 December 2020 - this test