The inoperative Russian spacecraft “Tselina-D”, which had been in orbit since 1982, was hit.
The Russian Defense Ministry admitted today that it carried out a test with an anti-satellite missile on Monday and called the US a “hypocrite”, which accused Moscow of having endangered the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) by space debris generated.
“Specifically, on November 15 of this year the Russian Defense Ministry successfully carried out a test, as a result of which the inoperative Russian space apparatus” Tselina-D “, which had been in orbit since 1982, was hit”, the military entity said in a statement.
“The United States knows with certainty that the resulting fragments, in terms of the duration of the test and the orbital parameters, did not and will not represent a threat to orbital stations, spacecraft and space activities,” Defense added.
The ministry led by Sergey Shoigu assured the fragments of the destroyed satellite “were included in the main catalog of the space control system” and immediately began their monitoring until their disappearance.
“Previously, the United States, China and India had already carried out similar tests in outer space,” Russia stressed.
“The Russian Defense Ministry considers hypocritical the statements of representatives of the State Department and the Pentagon, who tried to accuse the Russian Federation of creating ‘risks’ for the astronauts of the ISS and called’ to develop universal norms that would guide the global community in space exploration, ‘”he says.
Moscow maintained that “for several” years Russia has asked the United States and other space powers to sign a treaty to prevent the deployment of weapons in space.
“The draft of this treaty has been presented to the UN. However, the United States and its allies are blocking its adoption. Washington openly declares that it does not want to be subject to any obligation in space, “Defense said.
Russia emphasizes that, however, the United States created the Space Command in 2020 and officially adopted a new space strategy, in which “one of its main objectives is ‘to create a comprehensive military advantage in space.'”
“In turn, the Pentagon, even before these official steps, and even more so after, is actively developing and testing without notification in orbit the latest attack and combat weapons of various types, including the latest modifications of the unmanned spacecraft. X-37 ″, states Moscow.
“The actions of the US side are assessed as a threat and are incompatible with the stated objectives of the peaceful use of outer space,” he adds.
In this context, he emphasizes, the Russian Defense Ministry “is carrying out planned activities to strengthen defense capacity and exclude the possibility of sudden damage to the country’s security in the space sector and on the ground by existing foreign space assets and futures ”, he concludes. (I)
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