Russia Tests ‘Nesting Doll’ Anti-Satellite Weapon, Space Command Says

A Russia's Proton rocket, carrying Kosmos military satellite blasts off a launch pad at the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, on March 30, 2012. åSTR/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Space Command says Russia has carried out a test of a “nesting doll” anti-satellite weapon in space, using the same system that stalked a U.S. reconnaissance satellite earlier this year.

What Russia claims to be an inspector satellite injected another object into orbit alongside another Russian satellite on July 15, according to Space Command, which described the test as “non-destructive.”