It may sound like the beginning of a Star Trek plot, but there’s a very real arms race going on in space.
And Russia may have just made the first move.
According to some startling reports, Russian military satellites have apparently launched unknown objects into Earth’s orbit.
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Space.com described the trio of Russian satellites as “secretive” objects “whose purpose is unknown.”
“The three satellites, designated Kosmos 2581, 2582 and 2583, launched on a Soyuz-2.1V rocket from Plesetsk cosmodrome early on Feb. 2,” the outlet reports, adding that the satellites “have displayed interesting behavior.”
That behavior includes getting oddly close to other space objects.
That behavior also includes, according to IFL Science, a “new object” being launched into orbit on March 18.
Both reports cited Jonathan McDowell,
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