Russia tests 'killer satellite'

Western space security experts say Russia is testing a satellite capable of detecting and disabling, even destroying other satellites.

According to the Financial Times, the US military, Western space agencies and many satellite experts are closely monitoring every movement of the mysterious satellite nicknamed the 2014-28E Object .

The Russian army has silently launched missiles to bring this satellite into orbit since May.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Reshetnev Satellite Information Systems in Zheleznogorsk - (Photo: Reuters)

From August to October, the 2014-28E Object moved in an extremely strange trajectory. Only after international satellite experts began monitoring it did the Russian Defense Ministry speak up and confirm the satellite as Kosmos-2499 .

Last week, the 2014-28E Object began to approach another satellite in orbit.'The 2014-28E object is an experimental satellite. It can have many functions both civil and military. One possibility is to bombard other satellites or paralyze them, 'said space security expert Patricia Lewis of Chatham House.

The Moscow Times newspaper quoted Dr. James Oberg, former engineer of the US Aerospace Administration (NASA), as saying that small moving satellites are always functional, from provisioning and repair to inspection. and attack.

"Russia's test of satellites without declaring it is not peaceful," Oberg said.

In fact, killer satellite technology has been developed since the 1950s. In the early 1960s, Russia launched the Istrebitel Sputnik project (Satellite Attack) to produce satellites with access to satellites. Other and shoot them.

Russia has officially discontinued the Istrebitel Sputnik project for a long time, but countries like the US and China have all tested similar killer satellites, mainly to destroy satellites potentially dangerous to the Left. land.