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    Mysterious Russian Space Object May Be Anti-Satellite Warfare Technology

   by VOA News

   Space experts say Russia may be testing a satellite capable of chasing
   down other orbiting spacecraft either to approach and observe or
   disable and destroy them.

   Amateur astronomers Tuesday described as strange a spacecraft they have
   watched for weeks guiding itself toward Russian space objects, saying
   it could be Russia testing anti-satellite warfare technology.

   The object called Kosmos 2499 was put into orbit during a routine
   communications satellite launch in December 2013, but was thought to be
   space junk until the Russians claimed it in a U.N. document in May.

   A veteran amateur satellite tracker, Robert Christy, told The Moscow
   Times all the big space-faring nations, Russia, China and the U.S., are
   developing similar capabilities.








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