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AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY. February 2010 (Volume 19, Number 2)
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union worked to develop an anti-satellite weapon using powerful lasers at the Sary Shagan research complex in Eastern Kazakhstan.
.. on October 10th 1984, the Terra-3 laser was trained on the Space Shuttle Challenger as it passed over the complex.
The laser was set to its low power tracking setting.
The United States government filed a formal diplomatic complaint with the Soviet Union.