Russian General Says US May Have Planned Satellite Collision

[lovuian]

Russian General Says US May Have Planned Satellite Collision

A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said.

According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian Cosmos-2251 satellite, launched in 1993 and believed to be defunct, collided on February 10 about 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia.

However, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Leonid Shershnev, a former head of Russia's military space intelligence, said in an interview published by the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on Tuesday that the U.S. satellite involved in the collision was used by the U.S. military as part of the "dual-purpose" Orbital Express research project, which began in 2007.

Orbital Express was a space mission managed by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a team led by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
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Interesting
here it is
Sorry http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Russian_General_Says_US_May_Have_Planned_Satellite_Collision_999.html

[marketcrazy1]

1. please post a link

I have been following this story on another forum and would love to post this but a link would be required. TIA..

[lovuian]

2. sorry

http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Russian_General_Says_US_May_Have_Planned_Satellite_Collision_999.html

[goforit]

3. Who is playing who?

[Baikonour]

4. Are they just mad that they didn't think to do it first? n/t

[Canuckistanian]

5. Not hardly

Why would the US destroy not only a useless defunct Russian satellite but a working commercial satellite with it?

It's interesting to see that tinfoil sales are doing well in Russia, too.