{"id":13750,"date":"2024-05-25T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13750"},"modified":"2024-05-25T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:22:33","slug":"pentagon-says-russia-has-launched-a-mysterious-orbital-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13750","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Says Russia Has Launched a Mysterious Orbital Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The militarization of space is really heating up after the Pentagon accused Russia of launching a satellite that national security officials believe is capable of attacking other satellites in orbit,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cq55ww5j7e2o\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the&nbsp;<em>BBC<\/em>&nbsp;reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And most chillingly, this satellite, which the Russians launched last week, is on the same orbit as a US government satellite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a counter space weapon,&#8221; said Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder on Tuesday, as reported by the&nbsp;<em>BBC<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pentagon-says-russia-launched-mysterious-165829243.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pentagon-says-russia-launched-mysterious-165829243.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The militarization of space is really heating up after the Pentagon accused Russia of launching a satellite that national security officials believe is capable of attacking other satellites in orbit, the BBC reports.<br \/>\nAnd most chillingly, this satellite, which the Russians launched last week, is on the same orbit as a US government satellite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a counter space weapon,&#8221; said Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder on Tuesday, as reported by the BBC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pentagon-says-russia-launched-mysterious-165829243.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,272,355,314,335,315,954,158,1055],"class_list":["post-13750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-pentagon","tag-russia","tag-space","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13753,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions\/13753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}