US EditionA Cold War Above: How Russia Built Its Space Arsenal to Target the US
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A Cold War Above: How Russia Built Its Space Arsenal to Target the US
The recent separation of Object C from the Russian satellite Kosmos-2558 near the US reconnaissance satellite USA 326 has reignited concerns in Washington. But this is not an isolated event. It is part of a broader pattern—one that dates back over a decade and reflects Russia’s steady development of maneuverable satellites capable of shadowing, inspecting, or potentially disabling foreign space assets. According to amateur observers and open-sou…
The Russian satellite "Space-2558", launched in August 2022 from the Plesetsk launch site, on June 28, 2025, "duplicated": it was separated from it by a subsatellite named Object C in the U.S. catalogue of Space-Track spacecraft. This, at first glance, does not seem to be a very significant event, in the view of military and experts in the United States, as another act of preparing Russia for a war in space, if not the war itself. Such "space ma…
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