Russian Military May Have Rehearsed Attack on Finnish Satellite, Specialist Warns

A Russian military satellite that approached a Western commercial one last month may have been rehearsing an attack, a military space specialist said, with two related Russian craft now heading in the direction of another Western satellite. U.S. Under Secretary of State Thomas DiNanno wrote on X following the mid-October incident that Russia's Cosmos 2612 military satellite had been "intentionally maneuvering dangerously close to a commercial satellite" in conduct "consistent with on-orbit weapons operations." More

(Source: The Moscow Times - Nov 6)