AS RUSSIA struggles to restore links with four military satellites following
last week’s fire at a relay station, experts say the incident illustrates the
advanced decay of Russia’s space-based defences. They warn that Russia’s
inability to detect US missile launches from space could inadvertently cause a
nuclear war.
Anatoly Perminov, head of Russia’s Space Forces, has admitted that the fire
at a satellite relay station in Serpukhov, 200 kilometres south-west of Moscow,
prevented data being downloaded from four military satellites for a day. He
declined to say what the satellites were for.
One may have been Russia’s sole surviving early-warning…
