Russian satellite makes a menacing approach to another craft in orbit
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Over the weekend, a mysterious Russian satellite moved threateningly close to a U. S. commercial radar satellite that provides imagery to the Ukrainian military. Although the Russian craft is now backing off, analysts are left wondering: What was the Russian satellite doing at such close proximity? Was Russia planning to attack the U. S. satellite but reversed course? And, crucially, what happens next? “We just don’t know,” said Clayton Swope, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington. The maneuvers are an escalation of cat-and-mouse games that Russia, the United States and China have been playing with one another in space, mainly involving military spacecraft. This episode indicates that commercial satellites can be targets as well. The Russian satellite was one of six that launched on a Soyuz rocket in April. Russia said nothing about the satellites, and, like many presumed military spacecraft, they were given a generic Kosmos designation, with numbers 2609 through 2614. Beginning on Sept.
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