{"id":7259,"date":"2026-10-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikhailinvest.com\/space-war-fears-rise-as-russian-satellite-makes-dangerous-maneuver\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:00:00","slug":"space-war-fears-rise-as-russian-satellite-makes-dangerous-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikhailinvest.com\/zh\/space-war-fears-rise-as-russian-satellite-makes-dangerous-maneuver\/","title":{"rendered":"Space War Fears Rise as Russian Satellite Makes Dangerous Maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"

US officials publicly accused Russia of threatening a Finnish-operated commercial satellite that provides imagery and intelligence to Ukraine and other nations, calling the move “deliberately reckless.”<\/p>\n

In response to the accusations, made during a United Nations debate on October 21, Russia broadly described US claims as “absurd” and accused Washington of its own “aggressive military space ambitions.”<\/p>\n

The back-and-forth came days after a Russian military satellite known as Kosmos-2612 moved “dangerously” near to ICEYE-X36, a satellite registered in the United States and operated by a Finnish company called ICEYE.<\/p>\n

The Russian satellite came “exceptionally close” — within 200 meters, by some estimates — something that space officials and amateur satellite watchers said was extremely unusual.<\/p>\n

“This was not a routine conjunction or ‘fly by,'” LeoLabs, an aerospace intelligence company, told RFE\/RL. “The behavior is consistent with sophisticated rendezvous and proximity operations.”<\/p>\n

ICEYE-X36 carries a radar technology that can gather detailed terrestrial images, even through cloud cover. The Finnish company in January signed a contract with the Ukrainian Defense Ministry to provide intelligence.<\/p>\n

Kosmos-2612 “exhibited threatening behavior by intentionally maneuvering dangerously close to a commercial satellite,” Brian Hardesty, an adviser to the US Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament, said during a meeting in New York<\/strong><\/a> of the UN First Committee, a body that debates arms control and disarmament issues. “These behaviors appear consistent with an on-orbit weapons operation.”<\/p>\n

“The decision to conduct these activities was deliberately reckless,” he said.<\/p>\n

Russia’s representative who could not be immediately identified, did not directly address the assertion.<\/p>\n

“We call on member states to give the proper response to the aggressive military space ambitions of the United States,” he said.<\/p>\n

He also referenced comments made last month by the secretary of the US Air Force, the top civilian official for that military branch.<\/p>\n

Speaking to a conference outside of Washington, Troy Meink’s comments<\/strong><\/a> that Washington has in fact deployed actual weapons in space — “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action” — caused a jolt among policy experts.<\/p>\n

Other longtime space watchers, however, said the announcement merely stated publicly what had already been obvious for some time.<\/p>\n

“The United States did not suddenly weaponize space by acknowledging that it possesses these capabilities,” \u5199\u9053<\/strong><\/a> Mallory Stewart, a former top arms control secretary at the US State Department. “An arms race in space has been under way for years.”<\/p>\n

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