 The US State Department has criticized Russia for an anti-satellite weapons test it carried out against one of its own targets. It has generated debris the US considers a risk to astronauts on the International Space Station and other activities in outer space. State Department spokesman Ned Price says the Russian missile generated more than 1500 pieces of trackable orbital debris that can collide with other objects. The United States performed the first anti-satellite test in 1959 when satellites were rare.