Key Points
US intelligence agencies had been expecting the launch of COSMOS 2576 and informed allies of their assessment of the satellite before its deployment in space...
In an alarming development, the US Space Command has accused Russia of launching a satellite believed to be a counterspace weapon capable of inspecting and potentially attacking other satellites in orbit...
The accusation comes as the Russian spacecraft, COSMOS 2576, trails a U.S spy satellite operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)...
COSMOS 2576 bears resemblance to previously deployed Russian counterspace payloads from 2019 and 2022, which exhibited concerning tactics of deploying satellites in close proximity to sensitive U.S. spy satellites..
While COSMOS 2576 has not yet approached a U.S. satellite, space analysts have observed it to be in the same orbital ring as USA 314, a bus-sized NRO satellite launched in April 2021...
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