Washington, Jul 24 (UNI) United States on Friday accused Russia of testing an anti-satellite weapon in space, asserting that it exposed Moscow's intent to deploy weapons that threaten US and allied satellites.
In response, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said that the July 15 event involved "a small space vehicle" that "inspected one of the national satellites from a close distance using special equipment". It added that the inspection "provided valuable information about the object that was inspected, which was transmitted to the ground-based control facilities".
The US, however, insisted that the Russian actions were inconsistent with the stated mission of an inspector satellite, a report by Al Jazeera said.