RUSSIA has secretly tested an anti-satellite weapon in space, warns US Space Command.
Its experts said the Kremlin’s military push to use weapons in space puts “US and Allied space assets at serious risk”.
In a press release, US Space Command said its researchers have “evidence that Russia conducted a non-destructive test of a space-based anti-satellite weapon.”
On July 15, “Russia injected a new object into orbit from Cosmos 2543”, it said.
This is a Russian satellite which was earlier this year located looming close to an American satellite.
Space Command said that “Russia released this object in proximity to another Russian satellite”.
Its threatening action was “similar to on-orbit activity conducted by Russia in 2017, and inconsistent with the system’s stated mission as an inspector satellite”.
“The Russian satellite system used to conduct this on-orbit weapons test is the same satellite system that we raised concerns about earlier this year, when Russia manoeuvred near a US government satellite,” said Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, Commander and US Space Force Chief of Space Operations.
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