Russia’s Defense Ministry today admitted that it conducted a test with an anti-satellite missile on Monday.
The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, on Tuesday considered a “reckless act” the test carried out by Russia with an anti-satellite missile that generated “hazardous waste” that put “at risk” to the International Space Station.
“The United States has informed us about the Russian anti-satellite test that destroyed a satellite as part of a test. This has created a lot of debris that now pose a risk to the International Space Station and also to the Chinese Space Station, ”Stoltenberg explained to the press upon arrival at a meeting with the defense ministers of the European Union.
In his opinion, it was “a reckless act of Russia”, “having shot down and destroyed a satellite as part of a test of an anti-satellite weapons system.”
He recalled that NATO “has developed a space policy to address the challenges we see in space”, and that this does not mean that the Alliance is “militarizing space.”
“But satellites, the capabilities that NATO has in space, are extremely important for what happens on earth,” said the Norwegian politician.
The debris, Stoltenberg insisted, poses “a risk to civilian activity in space” but also worries because “it shows that Russia is now developing new weapons systems that can shoot down satellites, destroy important space capabilities for basic infrastructure on Earth. ”.
He specifically referred to communications, navigation or early warnings about missile launches.
Russia’s Defense Ministry admitted today that it conducted 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 over 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 time the test lasted and the orbital parameters, did not and will not represent a threat to orbital stations, spacecraft and space activities,” added the Russian Defense. (I)
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