Apparently Russia wants to join in on the Star Wars.
Starting april this year, for a period of 5 months, a unidentified Russian satellite has positioned itself in between two US communications satellites, closing in to a distance of only 10km, which in space terms, is classified as "extremely close and potentially threatening to the proper functioning of the communications sattelites."
Apparently, this is the first time ever that a commercial satellite was visited by a Russian satellite.
Attempts made by American authorities, who had been alarmed about the situation by Intelsat, to contact Russian authorities about the matter, have only resulted in silence.
It is speculated that the sattelite's mission was either to intercept data transmissions, or to practice maneuvering to take down sattelites.
Over the past few months, more Russian sattelites have been observed to execute maneuvers that resemble combat training for anti-satellite operations.
Space flight expert at the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands), Eelco Doornbos states that "the observed operations could imply that the Russians are practicing how to maneuver military satellites quickly and efficiently to new locations."
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