EXTON, Pa. (COMSPOC PR) COMSPOC Corp. a global leader in space situational awareness (SSA), space domain awareness (SDA), and space traffic coordination and management (STCM) commences as an independent company and no longer a subsidiary of Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI).
COMSPOC retains all SSA/STCM intellectual property, contracts, the products and services associated with SSA, SDA, and STM as well as its research arm, the Center for Space Standards and Innovation (CSSI), and the free space data service, CelesTrak. COMSPOC will also continue to provide staffing and resources for several global organizations including the Space Data Association and the Space Safety Coalition.
graziani was charged with delivering the bad news to one of its victims. u.s.-owned intel sat. as soon as we figured out it was parking next to an intel sat satellite, we picked up the phone and let them know they ve got a new neighbor. their reaction? they were not happy. the russian government did not respond to cnn s request for comment on luch or cosmos 2499. if russia s launches of those potential attack satellites were the space equivalents of surgical strikes, china s 2007 space shot was a sledgehammer. that year, the chinese launched a massive space kill vehicle, similar to this launch, viking striking one of its own satellites and blasting it, literally, into thousands of pieces.
observed the experiment in chinese, experimenting shadowing a second smaller chinese satellite, until one day, that second satellite disappeared. we saw the approach, we saw the larger spacecraft come close to the smaller spacecraft, and then we no longer saw the smaller spacecraft. the only reasonable explanation, shiyan has a robotic arm that was repeatedly grabbing and releasing its smaller partner, experimenting with a dangerous new space weapons capability. china admits the satellite has a robotic arm, but claims it was launched purely to observe space debris. graziani and others, however see the potential for a far more sinister use. why would you grapple another satellite? you could grab ahold on a satellite and maneuver it out of its mission. so it could basically take it offline. so you could kidnap another
paul graziani, ceo, finds his team on the front lines of this new threat. there s no doubt that russia and china both have seen that this is a way that they could shift the odds in their favor. his company agi tracks some 10,000 commercial and military objects orbiting the earth. their visual rendering of satellites and debris as small as 4 inches across resembles a porch light swarming with thousands of mosquitos. we spent the day with their ops team as graziani showed us that that cosmos, the russian kamikaze is far from the only threat. now meet luch. it s a russian satellite and what s happening here is this satellite has been maneuvering