Space|According to the Pentagon, the space weapon tracks the US intelligence satellite and is already the third Russian satellite weapon in space. Allegations of nuclear capability or nuclear weapons were not confirmed.
United States Russia claims to have launched a killer satellite into Earth orbit on Tuesday last week, tracking a low-orbit US intelligence satellite. The satellite was launched from the Plesetsk field in the Arkhangel region, about 500 kilometers east of Ilomantsi.
No details have been given about the power or armament of the Russian satellite. The United States has previously accused Russia of plans to transport a “nuclear-powered device” into space.
US Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood told About the Russian satellite on Monday at the UN Security Council meeting, which discussed Russia’s initiative on the security of outer space. The United States and Russia have alternately vetoed each other’s initiatives to arm space.
of the United States press secretary of the Ministry of Defense Pat Ryder on the other hand, told about it when answering journalists’ questions at the press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday.
“Russia launched a satellite into low-Earth orbit that we assessed as a probable space weapon, presumably capable of attacking other satellites in the same orbit,” Ryder said.
To the question about the danger posed by the Russian weapon to US satellites, Ryder replied that “there is a US government satellite in the same orbit”.
Sources interviewed by the Reuters news agency said that it is a “bus-sized” satellite of the US Armed Forces Satellite Intelligence Service’s NRO, which was launched into low orbit in 2021.
Ryder pointed out that the satellite launched now has “similar features” to the space weapons launched by Russia in 2019 and 2022.
Now the launched satellite has been named Kosmos 2576 by the Russians. The 2022 satellite will be called Kosmos 2553. News Agency Tass reported in February 2022 that Kosmos 2553 was carrying Russian “air and space force equipment” into space.
American Breaking Defense – online magazine Kosmos 2553 is first and foremost a reconnaissance satellite, but it may carry weapons capable of destroying other satellites. The satellite travels at an altitude of 2,000 kilometers, i.e. on the outer edge of the low orbit preferred by reconnaissance satellites.
Some experts interviewed by Breaking Defense doubt that Kosmos 2553 is carrying a nuclear weapon. Others, on the other hand, think that the satellite may be nuclear-powered and that the armament against other satellites would be electronic. Satellites launched into a low orbit have to correct their altitude from time to time with their own engines, so that they do not sink lower.
Rumors Russia’s intentions to deploy nuclear weapons in space began last February when the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Turner warned of a “serious national security threat”.
Eventually the White House Chief of Information John Kirby reportedthat it is a space weapons program aimed at destroying Russian satellites.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov on Wednesday denied all US claims and called them fake news, reports news agency Reuters.
Mixed In the early 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had time to carry out their own nuclear explosions in space before the 1967 agreement on the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction in outer space.
On October 27, 1961, Russia launched two launchers with nuclear charges into space from the Kapustin Jar field in the Astrakhan region, according to the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta. One bomb exploded at an altitude of 150 and the other at 300 kilometers. Both explosions were seen with the naked eye – although the common people did not know what it was about.
United States made several unsuccessful attempts until the test named Starfish Prime was successful on July 9, 1962. At that time, the United States launched a nuclear-tipped Thor rocket into space from the small Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A 1.45 megaton nuclear charge at an altitude of 450 kilometers above sea level.
The explosion created an electromagnetic pulse and radiation fronts that destroyed Breaking Defence including eight of the 24 satellites that were in orbit around the earth in the summer of 1962. One of the destroyed satellites was the US’s.
According to experts, the Russian satellite Kosmos 2553, launched two years ago, is in an orbit with only one Russian and ten American decommissioned satellites.
Correction 24.5. 6:49 am: Russia launched two launchers on October 27, 1961, not 1061.
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