Russia launches secret military surveillance satellite

[The Seeker]

Russia launches secret military surveillance satellite to 'monitor' other satellites

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/russia-launches-secret-military-surveillance-satellite.amp

From Fox News...

The Russian military has launched a secret military satellite designed to "monitor" other satellites, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry.

"The spacecraft, created on the basis of a unified multifunctional space platform, is launched into the target orbit from which the state of domestic satellites can be monitored," the defense ministry wrote in the statement. "The optical equipment of the spacecraft also allows you to take pictures of the Earth's surface."

The satellite was launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket on Monday at 12:52 p.m. EST, 8:52 p.m. local time. The Soyuz-2.1v launch vehicle sent the satellite from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

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[Ellirium113]

How was it a "SECRET" if they advertised it? 

[The Seeker]

How was it a "SECRET" if they advertised it? 

Very good, E  I was wondering how long it would take for anyone to catch that 

I guess in our current paradigm the only part of it that is 'secret' is whose satellites they intend to monitor and why 

Bwahahahaha

yeah...



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[ArMaP]

How was it a "SECRET" if they advertised it? 

I was thinking the same, but I think all countries warn others when they do a satellite launch, so everybody knows what's up there.

What they really do is a different thing. This one, for example, I find it a little strange that it has an "optical equipment", as I wasn't expecting it to really "look for" or "look at" other satellites.

[The Seeker]

I was thinking the same, but I think all countries warn others when they do a satellite launch, so everybody knows what's up there.

If you read the article, it states that the Russians didn't pre-warn anyone, just launched it Monday then made the announcement afterward...

What they really do is a different thing. This one, for example, I find it a little strange that it has an "optical equipment", as I wasn't expecting it to really "look for" or "look at" other satellites.

From the article:
"The optical equipment of the spacecraft also allows you to take pictures of the Earth's surface."

SO it is supposed to monitor "domestic satellites" and can takes sat photos of the earth; now, since they have told us all that, what can and does it do that isn't being told?



Seeker

[ArMaP]

If you read the article, it states that the Russians didn't pre-warn anyone, just launched it Monday then made the announcement afterward...

I didn't say "pre-warn", did I?

SO it is supposed to monitor "domestic satellites" and can takes sat photos of the earth; now, since they have told us all that, what can and does it do that isn't being told?

That's what I would like to know.

[The Seeker]

I didn't say "pre-warn", did I?

No,wazoo, you didn't; but to warn usually means to tell before the event, not after 

That's what I would like to know.

Yes, indeed; there has to be more than we are being told 

why should there be a need to monitor domestic satellites?

[ArMaP]

why should there be a need to monitor domestic satellites?

They probably lost some and are looking for them. 

[The Seeker]

They probably lost some and are looking for them. 

Or watching to see if anyone is using them for target practice