US Officials Allege Russia Deployed Anti-Satellite Weapon in Space

Ambassador Robert Wood alluded to the suspected Russian space weapon launch in remarks at the U.N. Security Council.

A Soyuz rocket carrying a batch of 34 OneWeb satellites blasts off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Feb. 7, 2020. Russian State Space Corporation ROSCOSMOS/Handout via Reuters

U.S. military and diplomatic officials claimed this week that Russia has likely launched a new “counter-space weapon” that could threaten satellite networks.

Ambassador Robert Wood, the U.S. alternate representative for special political affairs in the United Nations, first alluded to the suspected Russian space weapon launch in remarks at the U.N. Security Council on May 20, ahead of a vote on a Russian-drafted resolution to ban weapons of any kind in space.