Chinese, Russian killer satellites ‘seen approaching’ Japanese craft

Chinese, Russian killer satellites ‘seen approaching’ Japanese craft | South China Morning Post

Concerns rising in Tokyo that Beijing and Moscow are practising ways to destroy systems critical to Japan’s intelligence-gathering

‘If Tokyo and Washington are going to work together more closely, that would explain it’: expert

Chinese and Russian “killer satellites” have been detected approaching Japanese satellites, according to government sources in Tokyo, raising concerns that Beijing and Moscow are practising ways to disable or destroy systems that are critical to Japan’s intelligence-gathering and defence capabilities.

Quoting a high-ranking government official in Tokyo, the Yomiuri newspaper reported that Washington was alarmed when the Russian Cosmos 2542 satellite repeatedly approached a US reconnaissance satellite earlier this year.

It is believed the Russian spacecraft was close enough to obtain photographic details of the US satellite, while it has been suggested that the operation was a dry-run for an attack that would have used small projectiles to destroy the craft.
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Could things get any worse?

They can't blow **** up in space. The world, including China and Russia, have too many things running around up there. You make a debris field, it's going to **** up everything. GPS would get ****ed up, and Tinder would go down. People would be pissed.

Ikari said:

They can't blow **** up in space. The world, including China and Russia, have too many things running around up there. You make a debris field, it's going to **** up everything. GPS would get ****ed up, and Tinder would go down. People would be pissed.

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Say goodby to GPS and hello to the stone ages.

Concerns rising in Tokyo that Beijing and Moscow are practising ways to destroy systems critical to Japan’s intelligence-gathering

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Japan does not have any of these spy satellites but the Chinese paper cited in the OP wrongly claims Japan has intelligence-gathering capabilities in space. Russia has no interest in destroying meteorological satellites owned by Japan. Kosmos 2499 is designed to test experimental plasma propulsion engines/ion thrusters, white some speculate that it could be used as an experimental anti-satellite weapon without providing any proof of that outrageous claim.

Chinese, Russian killer satellites ‘seen approaching’ Japanese craft | South China Morning Post