China Making Advances In Anti-Satellite Weapons

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EuarAsian Times: China’s ‘Satellite Killer’ Spacecraft Threatens To Puncture US Military In Space By Crippling Its Recon, Navigation & EW Satellites  

On May 8, a mysterious reusable Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth after staying in orbit for 276 days. On the face of it, it seems like a mere technological development. But, from a military perspective, it has far-reaching consequences. 

A highly maneuverable spacecraft like this could be used to “surveil, disrupt and outright attack an opponent’s space-based assets” or conversely can “retrieve or otherwise interact with friendly ones.” 

Private space services company LeoLabs revealed on its Twitter handle that the Chinese reusable space vehicle “docked with or captured a separate object on multiple occasions” during the orbit. 

The Chinese state-run China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has not provided many details about its time in orbit.

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