Originally Posted by
sfm818
It would be naive to believe the United States has not engaged in unauthorized rendezvous proximity operations - the difference with China and Russia however is they have both demonstrated in recent times a capacity to abandon basic principles, cross a line, and test the use of kinetic weapons to destroy targets in orbit.
Just for clarity the US has openly admitted it has engaged “rendezvous proximity operations”….most notable being the use of an ASM 135 to
destroy satellite P78-1 in 1985…creating a space debris problem in pre-ISS days.
I would agree that doesn’t qualify as recent times, that space debris in LEO is a serious issue and the Russian test was an aggressive move but OTOH I got slightly
at the holier than thou attitude of some comments coming out of the US……..