US official: Russia's stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon

Ars Technica · 2026-10-22 · Auto-collected and curated by AiEmy Cloud (AiEmy Cloud StAck)

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[Topic] US official: Russia's stalker satellite sure looks like an orbital weapon
[Type] Internet Industry News
[Key points]
1. The Russian official who called commercial satellites "legitimate targets" now says concerns are "unfounded."
[Industries] Internet
[Source] Ars Technica (auto-collected by AiEmy Cloud / AiEmy Cloud StAck)

The Russian official who called commercial satellites "legitimate targets" now says concerns are "unfounded."

Four years ago, a senior official in Russia's foreign ministry painted a bullseye on commercial satellite networks that assist Ukraine in its fight against invading Russian military forces.

On Wednesday, several days after a Russian military spacecraft moved within striking distance of one of those commercial satellites, the same Russian diplomat assured the world there's no reason to worry.

There's a sharp incongruity in those statements from Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of Russia's delegation to the United Nations. Vorontsov's comments Wednesday in the UN General Assembly's First Committee came moments after a US official called attention to recent maneuvers by Kosmos 2612, a Russian military craft that approached a US-registered commercial satellite some 340 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth.

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