Russia may have rehearsed attack on satellite, specialist says, flagging another approach

Straits Times5 November 2026, 06:07 UTCRussia

LONDON/WASHINGTON, Nov 5 - A Russian military satellite that approached a Western commercial one last month could have been rehearsing an attack, a military space specialist said, with two related Russian craft now heading in the direction of another Western satellite.

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