Is China's SY-7 A New And Dangerous Weapon?

China’s Mystery Satellite Could Be a Dangerous New Weapon -- Robert Beckhusen, War Is Boring

The SY-7 is one of three Chinese satellites doing some very strange things in orbit

On July 29, a Chinese Long March-4C rocket blasted into space from the northern Taiyuan Space Center carrying three secretive, experimental satellites. Not really all that unusual by itself — a robotic arm reportedly on one of the satellites could be involved in testing for Beijing’s far-off space station program.

But once they were in orbit, the satellites began acting very, very strangely.

More precisely, one of the satellites, known as SY-7, was moving all over the place and was appearing to make close-in rendezvous’s with other satellites. It was so strange, space analysts wondered whether China was testing a new kind of space weapon — one that could intercept other satellites and more or less claw them to death.

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My Comment: In short .... the Chinese are copying what the Americans have been doing for years .... the question now is .... unlike the U.S. who dropped this program years ago ....  will the Chinese now make these satellites a permanent part of it's military space program.