{"id":245703,"date":"2021-11-17T08:47:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T08:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245703"},"modified":"2021-11-19T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T08:20:24","slug":"russia-confirms-space-weapon-test-dismisses-hypocritical-u-s-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=245703","title":{"rendered":"Russia Confirms Space Weapon Test, Dismisses \u2018Hypocritical\u2019 U.S. Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Moscow Times \u2013 Nov 16, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Russian military\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/armiya-i-opk\/12938485\">confirmed<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday that it tested a space weapon and brushed off U.S. concerns of endangering astronauts at the International Space Station as \u201chypocritical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said it \u201csuccessfully conducted a test on Nov. 15, hitting the non-operating Russian spacecraft \u2018Tselina-D,\u2019 which had been in orbit since 1982,\u201d the state-run TASS news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2020\/07\/24\/russia-rejects-space-weapon-claim-as-propaganda-a70964\">dismissed<\/a> U.S. accusations that it tested an anti-satellite weapon in outer space as \u201cpropaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The destroyed target is believed to have been a Soviet signals intelligence satellite that has been defunct for several decades, according to space industry analysis company Seradata.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile marks the fourth-ever instance in which a spacecraft was hit from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The ISS crew was forced to take shelter in their return ships Monday after the missile test put more than 1,500 pieces of debris into Earth&#8217;s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>After NASA and the U.S. State Department decried its \u201cdangerous and irresponsible\u201d space missile strike, the Russian military\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20211116\/mks-1759290094.html\">hit back<\/a> with accusations that Washington is testing its own space weapons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The U.S. Defense Department] is actively developing and testing, without any notification, various types of advanced strike and combat weapons in orbit,\u201d RIA Novosti quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American side\u2019s actions are viewed as a threat incompatible with its stated goals of the peaceful use of outer space,\u201d it said, and added that Russia is working on \u201celiminating the likelihood of sudden damage to the country\u2019s defense capability in space and on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian military also denied that the space debris threatened the four American, one German and two Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. knows for certain that the fragments formed during the tests did not and will not pose a threat to orbital stations, spacecraft and space activities,\u201d the Defense Ministry said, according to RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/11\/16\/russia-confirms-space-weapon-test-dismisses-hypocritical-us-concerns-a75579\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dismissing U.S. criticism of Russia\u2019s anti-satellite weapons test, a Defense Ministry spokesman said that the U.S. is also \u201cactively developing and testing, without any notification, various types of advanced strike and combat weapons in orbit\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245750,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245703\/revisions\/245750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}