"Russia’s ‘Killer Satellites’ Re-Awaken" Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 May 2017 9:21 p.m. PST |
"A trio of mysterious Russian government satellites startled space experts when, shortly after blasting into low orbit between 2013 and 2015, they began dramatically changing their orbits, demonstrating a rare degree of maneuverability for small spacecraft. Now after being idle for a year or more, two of the mystery-sats are on the move again. On April 20, 2017, one of them reportedly shaved hundreds of meters off its orbit in order to zoom within 1,200 meters of a big chunk of a defunct Chinese weather satellite that China smashed in a controversial 2007 test of an anti-satellite rocket. By orbital standards, that's pretty close…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 20 May 2017 1:09 p.m. PST |
Yep. Every government wants to know how China did that precise hit. Though you'd never know any of that from what you typically see on our US media as any sort of threat. Dan
PS. Aren't the Russian satellites just now barely demonstrating Reagan-era "Star Wars" capabilities? |
| Tango01 | 21 May 2017 2:56 p.m. PST |
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