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Written by Raoul Cardellini Leipertz
In spring 2024, a lone Russian satellite drifting through an unexpected low Earth orbit (LEO) set off alarms from Washington to Brussels. Was it an innocuous on-orbit experiment or the first sign of an exo-atmospheric strike platform? ]]>