Chinese And Russian 'Killer Satellites' Are Tracking Japanese Satellites

Japan's H-2A rocket lifts off carrying Tokyo’s first communications satellite Kirameki-2 from the Tanegashim Space Centre. Photo: AP

SCMP: Chinese, Russian killer satellites ‘seen approaching’ Japanese craft

* Concerns rising in Tokyo that Beijing and Moscow are practising ways to destroy systems critical to Japan’s intelligence-gathering
* ‘If Tokyo and Washington are going to work together more closely, that would explain it’: expert

Chinese and Russian “killer satellites” have been detected approaching Japanese satellites, according to government sources in Tokyo, raising concerns that Beijingand Moscow are practising ways to disable or destroy systems that are critical to Japan’s
intelligence-gathering and defence capabilities.

Quoting a high-ranking government official in Tokyo, the Yomiuri newspaper reported that Washington was alarmed when the Russian Cosmos 2542 satellite repeatedly approached a US reconnaissance satellite earlier this year.

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WNU Editor: Japan announced early this year a very ambitious space plan .... Japan reveals plan for space defense unit (Defense News). It should not surprise them that based on that plan, China and Russia will be watching them.