War in space: Kamikazes, kidnapper satellites and lasers

By Jim Sciutto and Jennifer Rizzo, CNN
Updated 9:06 AM ET, Tue November 29, 2016

Washington (CNN)It was May 2014 when a small team of American airmen monitoring a Russian satellite launch saw something they had never seen before. An object the team thought was a piece of debris from the launch suddenly came to life.

"The one object that we assumed was a piece of debris started to maneuver in close proximity to the (rocket) booster," recalled Lt. Gen. David Buck, commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space located at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Buck, who oversees US military space forces, said the deliberate maneuvers the mystery object made close to the rocket's booster were a red flag. Getting that close to another object in space is a complex feat, as objects can move as fast as 17,500 miles per hour.

"That got our attention," Buck said.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/29/politics/space-war-lasers-satellites-russia-china/

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