If you are a country like the United States, it is more than logical that you not only make investments in research and development of new technologies, but also invest in a huge amount of equipment, both human and technical, with which monitor possible threats of all kinds.
On this occasion it seems that the North American country is getting very nervous about the strange activity that is presenting a mysterious satellite, which they apparently knew nothing about, russian origin which is in orbiting the Earth. Such is the fear that, faced with this behavior, there have already been some voices that speak that it could be a space weapon.
The United States begins to worry about the behavior of a satellite of Russian origin
According to an official statement released by the State Department, the problem lies precisely in the fact that they do not know why a satellite like this is in orbit and the most worrying thing for them is that today they have no way of knowing if it truly They are facing a satellite with some kind of problem, an object that is dedicated to extracting certain data or literally a weapon that can cause them a lot of damage.
For now, the truth is that all the personnel investigating this Russian object orbiting the Earth try to avoid using the word weapon in their statements, although nor do they deny that it may be a since, as an assistant secretary of the United States department of state has commented in a conference, today «we have no way of knowing what it is or how to verify it«.
This satellite has been in orbit since October 2017
Going into a little more detail and taking into account the little information that has come to light regarding this matter, apparently we are facing a satellite that was put into orbit by Russia in October 2017 and its behavior in orbit is abnormal and almost unpredictable. The most worrying thing is that this behavior does not coincide with that of any other satellite that is in orbit, not even Russian.
In the words of yleem poblete, assistant secretary of the state department to whom we mentioned earlier:
Its behavior in orbit is inconsistent with anything we have seen in our inspections, including analyzes of Russian satellites. The intentions of the Russians with this satellite are unclear and worrying.
Russia openly denies that this satellite is a weapon
For their part, the Russians literally seem to have refused to enter the «game" of the United States, or at least that is what they have declared. Specifically, they have had to be official agents who have had to go out publicly to try to reassure, in their own way, the US government, claiming that they are only «baseless and defamatory accusations based simply on suspicions«.
Where does the fear of the United States come from at the possibility that this device could be a space weapon? It is certainly not a secret that Russia, in the past, already had a program where space weapons were developed. Curiously, and despite the fact that this is not a secret, the truth is that today there is no evidence that this type of program is still active, although on the other hand, it would not be surprising if they existed since, like the United States and a number of other world powers, these projects related to space technology are often kept confidential to all governments of all countries.
With all this on the table, and perhaps much that we leave under it and that we do not understand, we find that the United States is very concerned about what a satellite may be equipped with some type of laser or microwave weapon that maybe it would do not to cause chaos and destruction in orbit or even to attack Earth, but rather to affect the operation of other satellites and thus get them to be disabled in order to leave «blind»To an enemy on the ground before possible attacks.
Further information: United States Department of State