Russia defends anti-satellite missile test that U.S. called "reckless"
Russia confirmed it successfully took down one of its own Soviet-era satellites in its first demonstration of military capability to strike space targets with a missile from Earth, and it hit back at U.S. officials who said the test posed a threat to the International Space Station crew.
On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Russia had "recklessly conducted a destructive test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile against one of its own satellites."
The Russian military confirmed the launch the next day, saying they fired a missile at the defunct Soviet radio surveillance system Tselina-D, also known as Cosmos 1408 in the West, which has been in orbit since 1982.
"We indeed successfully tested our promising system," Russia's Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Tuesday, according to Russia's TASS news agency. "It hit the old satellite with surgical precision."
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