Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin spoke about the concern of the state corporation due to the fact that the United States and NATO are launching potential weapons carriers into space. He stated this on the air of the program "Solovyov LIVE", the broadcast was conducted on the YouTube channel Roscosmos Media.
"There is a topic that cannot but bother us, it is the topic of the militarization of space. We see how over the past decades, the United States, first of all, and their NATO allies, have been launching into space not weapons, but potential carriers of these weapons," he said.
Earlier, the head of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Bill Nelson, said in an interview with Rogozin that the threat to the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) due to Russia's tests of anti-satellite weapons still persists.
On November 16, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken accused Russia is accused of creating a threat to the safety of space research due to the test of an anti-satellite missile. However, the Russian Defense Ministry has published a video that proves that the fragments formed after the test of anti-satellite weapons in space do not pose a threat to the ISS.
Marina Sovina
