Russia claims spy satellites uncovered
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Russia has uncovered a group of spy satellites, the head of its space command said in a film broadcast yesterday, which warned of 鈥渆nemy鈥 satellites that could masquerade as space junk.
鈥淰ery recently, specialists of the department of space intelligence center uncovered a newly created group of space satellites ... made for radio-technical reconnaissance of equipment on Russian territory,鈥 said the commander of Russian Space Command, Oleg Maidanovich.
Space Command is a division of the military responsible for warning of missile and air strikes and controlling Russia鈥檚 defence satellites. Maidanovich declined to say which country or countries the satellites belonged to.
The film 鈥 called 鈥淪pace Special Forces鈥 鈥 was shown on defence ministry channel Zvezda as Russia marked 鈥淪pace Day,鈥 commemorating the space flight of Yury Gagarin on April 12, 1961.
The 40-minute movie is 鈥渄edicated to the war for space, the battles of spy satellites,鈥 the channel鈥檚 website says, echoing the language of 1980s space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. 鈥淥ne talks of peaceful satellites, but there are known cases when groups of potential enemy satellites formed against our satellites, above our territory,鈥 the film鈥檚 voiceover said.
鈥淭here are cases when a space satellite pretends to be space junk for years and then wakes up and starts working at the right moment.鈥
Russia鈥檚 relations with the West are at their lowest point in post-Cold War history, although cooperation has so far continued in space, notably at the International Space Station.
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