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White House confirms US has intelligence on Russian anti-satellite capability (www.cnn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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White House confirms US has intelligence on Russian anti-satellite capability::The White House on Thursday confirmed that the national security threat flagged by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee the previous day is related to “an anti-satellite capability that Russia is developing,” but sought to soothe concerns about the danger it presents to the United States.

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Wait, is this new? I was pretty sure it was known since like the 90s that both Russia and China had anti-satellite satellites, to say nothing of the ground and plane launched missiles. There was a satellite destroyed like a decade ago I think that was strongly suspected of being a test firing of some countries satellite weapon.

The big problem with these things isn't that they exist, it's that usage of them leads a very strong chance of triggering a Kessler cascade, and then everyone's going to have a bad time.