Is Russia Rehearsing An Attack In Orbit?
Is Russia Rehearsing An Attack In Orbit? Two Russian satellites are drifting toward the orbit of a second US-registered radar satellite run by Finland's ICEYE, weeks after a sibling spacecraft closed to within about 500 meters of the first, and one analyst says that earlier pass "looks like an attack rehearsal."Greg Gillinger, a senior space analyst at Integrity ISR and a former US Air Force intelligence officer who has tracked the satellites, told Reuters that Cosmos 2612 has since moved about 400 km (250 miles) away from ICEYE's X36, and that two sibling Russian satellites are n