Future War

The Russian Satellite launch was routine. 

“In May 2014 there was a regular Russian rocket launch that put four satellites up into orbit,” recalls Bob Christy, a former Kettering pupil.

“But one of them wasn’t the same as the others.”

 Three — as had been publicly declared — were Rodnik communications satellites.

The fourth, though, was something quite else. Officially it was classified on the Pentagon’s public space database as orbital junk.

But then it began to manoeuvre. “It moved away from the others,” says Christy.

“And then we watched it put itself on a trajectory to catch up again with the rocket booster that launched it.

 It was some kind of test.”

Satellite Wars