{"id":30369,"date":"2020-07-24T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T07:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30369"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T07:44:34","slug":"u-s-accuses-russia-of-testing-anti-satellite-weapon-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30369","title":{"rendered":"U.S. accuses Russia of testing anti-satellite weapon in space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Russia said the event involved a small space vehicle that \u201cinspected one of the national satellites from a close distance using special equipment.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Missile-Rocket_20200724-103943_1-1-1024x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30370\"\/><figcaption>Representational Picture<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-accuses-russia-of-testing-anti-satellite-weapon-in-space\/article32178217.ece\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States accused Russia on Thursday of conducting a test of an anti-satellite weapon in space, asserting that it exposed Moscow\u2019s intent to deploy weapons that threaten U.S. and allied satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Moscow, the Defense Ministry said the July 15 event involved a small space vehicle that \u201cinspected one of the national satellites from a close distance using special equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It added that the inspection provided valuable information about the object that was inspected, which was transmitted to the ground-based control facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S., however, said the Russian actions were inconsistent with the stated mission of an inspector satellite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian satellite system used to conduct this on-orbit weapons test is the same satellite system that we raised concerns about earlier this year, when Russia maneuvered near a U.S. government satellite, said Gen John W. Raymond, commander of Space Command and the head of U.S. Space Force.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia said the event involved a small space vehicle that \u201cinspected one of the national satellites from a close distance using special equipment. AP The United States accused Russia on Thursday of conducting a test of an anti-satellite weapon in space, asserting that it exposed Moscow\u2019s intent to deploy weapons that threaten U.S. and allied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}