May 22 (UPI) --Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said Russia "likely" has launched a "counter space weapon" capable of threatening U.S. government satellites. Responding to a question from ...

TASS/. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov rejected as fake news the Pentagon’s claim that Russia launched a counter space weapon, noting that Moscow was against placing strike ...

The Pentagon surmised that, on May 16, Russia placed a counterspace weapon in low Earth orbit. "On May 16 <…> Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a ...

The Pentagon subsequently stated that Russia had launched an anti-satellite vehicle into orbit on 16 May 2024: "Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a ...

His focus is Russia and Ukraine ... Moscow's alleged space weapon efforts. On February 5, 2022, 20 days before Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Cosmos 2553 was launched from the Plesetsk ...