UK Says Russian Federation Poses Space Threat
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Moscow is trying to jam military satellites and gather intelligence.
The aggressor country Russia regularly tries to jam UK military satellites. Major General Major General Paul Tedman, head of Britain's Space Command, said this in an interview with BBC published on October 3.
He said Russian vehicles fly close to British satellites and try to collect data. Russia is also trying to jam UK military satellites every week using ground-based systems. The general said this was deliberate and that the activity had intensified since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The UK has about six military satellites in orbit, while the US, China and Russia have more than a hundred. Over the past decade, China and Russia's satellite fleets have collectively grown by 70 percent.
The general said China has more advanced technology, but it is Russia that has more often demonstrated a willingness to use anti-satellite systems.
The British Defense Ministry has already invested in jamming protection for satellites and plans to test sensors capable of detecting laser threats from space. Moscow and Beijing, according to London and Washington, are developing laser weapons and even systems to place nuclear charges in space.
The threat of interference from space is not limited to the UK, the BBC notes. In September, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Russia was tracking two Intelsat satellites used by the German military. "They can jam, blind, manipulate or kinetically disable satellites," he said at a space conference in Berlin.
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