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Old 15th Nov 2021, 19:32
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Following on from cables being removed off Norway Daily Telegraph this evening:

US slams 'reckless' Kremlin for blowing up satellite forcing space station astronauts to take cover

Astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to shelter in their re-entry vehicles in case of impact
BySarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR and Nick Allen WASHINGTON15 November 2021 • 5:29p There have been warnings from the US military that the Kremlin is looking at potentially attacking US satellites in future.In the Russian anti-satellite test, known as an ASAT, it blew up one of its own defunct spy satellites.

It created thousands of pieces of space debris, some of which floated toward the space station.

Ned Price, the US state department spokesman, said: "Earlier today, the Russian Federation recklessly conducted a destructive satellite test of a direct ascent anti-satellite missile against one of its own satellites.

"The test has so far generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris and hundreds of thousands of pieces of smaller orbital debris that now threaten the interests of all nations."
He added: "Russia's dangerous and irresponsible behavior jeopardises the long-term sustainability of outer space and clearly demonstrates that Russia's (claims) to oppose the weaponisation of space are disingenuous and hypocritical." Space tracking experts confirmed that the former Soviet Cosmos-1408 intelligence satellite which was in orbit just several miles above the ISS was destroyed.

Seradata, the space intelligence experts, said that a missile had launched from the Plesetsk site in northern Russia at 6.30am on Monday.

The US is particularly reliant, compared to Russia or China, on satellites, including for military communications.

Last year Dan Coats, then the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, testified to Congress that Russia, and China, were “increasingly considering attacks against satellite systems as part of their future warfare doctrine.”
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