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The UK said Russia’s space operations “danger causing particles that might posture a hazard to satellites”.
Accusations from the United States and UK that Russia just recently checked anti-satellite weaponry in area are “distorted”, Russia’s defence ministry says.
” Tests performed [on 15 July] did not produce a danger for other spacecraft,” the ministry said, adding that it had actually not breached worldwide law.
Moscow said earlier that it had actually been utilizing new technology to perform look at Russian space equipment.
However the US and UK said they were concerned about the satellite activity.
” We are worried by the manner in which Russia evaluated among its satellites by releasing a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon,” the head of the UK’s area directorate, Air Vice Marshal Harvey Smyth, said on Thursday.
It is the first time that the UK has made accusations about Russian test-firing in space, and comes simply days after a questions stated the UK federal government “badly underestimated” the risk postured by Russia
The US State Department also stated it had actually observed the usage by Russia of “what would seem real in-orbit anti-s