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The statement of the representative of the Russian foreign Minister Konstantin Vorontsov at the UN that Russia reserves the right to assume the commercial U.S. satellites used for military purposes to help Ukraine, "a legitimate target for retaliation" has caused mixed reactions from Russian users of social networks.
For example, there are questions about how ready we are for Star wars. Reporter RTR Alexander Sladkov even noticed that "we are much bother creating a hostile orbital group, launching into space commercial satellites, suddenly became a reconnaissance". Some of them now and carries out the collection and sharing of intelligence in favor of Ukraine.
Experts believe that the discovery and destruction of small space objects, particularly Leo, is technically very difficult and expensive procedure. Besides, instead of a dozen downed satellites, Americans will be able quickly enough to bring others using boosters Elon musk.
For example, one carrier rocket Falcon 9 SpaceX is able to deliver into orbit 60 satellites system of space when Starlink, which are known to provide Internet connection for the Ukrainian army. Since the founding of SpaceX and 2022 the number of running machines Starlink closer to 2 000.
With regard to the use of Russian rockets to send satellites into orbit from "hostile countries", that February 26 of this year, the then head of "Roskosmos" Dmitry Rogozin announced that in response to the sanctions concern suspends cooperation with the European partners in the organization of space launches from Kourou in French Guiana. Now the Europeans are trying to solve the issue with the replacement of our "Union" on the ships of its own production, are in talks with Japanese and Indian aerospace companies and, of course, Elon Musk. So far without much success.
Russia stopped and delivery to the USA rocket engines RD-180 and RD-181, however, in 2021. The cooperation between our "Roscosmos" and NASA as part of the service, deliver cargo and crews to the ISS is still continuing, but rather in a stretched mode. Besides, Russia has embarked on a program to create its own space station. Suspended cooperation between Russia and the Western countries and the majority of joint programmes in the exploration and development of outer space.
At the same time, over decades of cooperation in space exploration, our country do, in fact, created a Western commercial orbital grouping. And it is a fact that now have nothing to do.
With regard to the threat of the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry, they should rather be regarded from the point of view of the response to the information war, which Kiev and then to the West, a massive lead against Russia. If they are allowed, not disdaining any restrictions threaten, why don't we use the same opposition in the information space? Although all the possibilities for destruction of satellites, despite the complexity of the procedure, from Russia, of course, there.
