By Paul Mason, Published by The New Statesman, 17 November 2021 The major powers are engaged in an unprecedented expansion of military power in space, but it remains dangerously covert, opaque and unregulated. On 15 November astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered to “take refuge” in the spacecraft
By Jonny Tickle, Published by Russia Today, 16 November 2021 Debris that passed close to the International Space Station is no longer a threat to the inhabited satellite, Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday, hours after the US claimed it was caused by a Russian missile test. The statement
By Jonny Tickle, Published by Russia Today, 16 November 2021 The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that it conducted a missile test that hit and destroyed an old, inoperable satellite one day after the US State Department accused Moscow of being “irresponsible” and “reckless.” According to the ministry, the test
By Debra Werner, Published by SpaceNews, 16 November 2021 SAN FRANCISCO – LeoLabs was alerted early Nov. 15 that something was happening in low Earth orbit. Before the Silicon Valley space mapping startup heard of the Russian antisatellite test, its global network of phased array radars detected an object in
By Chelsea Gohd, Published by Space.com, 15 November 2021 "The test has so far generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris," a State Department spokesperson said. Russia conducted an anti-satellite test (ASAT) early on Monday (Nov. 15), generating hundreds of thousands of pieces of space debris and threatening the
By Nevin Brown, Published by Sputnik News, 15 November 2021 The United States has accused the Russian Federation of conducting a "destructive satellite test" that could put astronauts, cosmonauts, and global satellite operations at risk. Through the U.S. State Department's spokesperson, Ned Price, it was revealed that the alleged test
Debris (in red) from China's January 2007 ASAT test, seen in this visualization with other objects in low Earth orbit nearly one year later. Credit: AGI By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 15 November 2021 LAS VEGAS — A Russian satellite broke up in low Earth orbit in a deliberate
by Staff Writers for Launchspace, Published by SpaceWar, 29 October 2021 Bethesda, MD (SPX) - A new arms race is unfolding among spacefaring nations. Space experts have been telling us about contested space for the last several years. The number of active satellites is exploding from about 1,000 a few
