{"id":577053,"date":"2026-07-31T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577053\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T11:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:37:09","slug":"satellite-killers-what-a-war-in-space-might-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577053\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite killers: What a war in space might look like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Over the last few years Earth-based telescopes and orbital cameras have spotted two Russian satellites, Luch-1 and Luch-2, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-russia-is-intercepting-communications-from-european-satellites-276094\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">making a number of suspicious manoeuvres in orbit.<\/a> In particular, they have been seen making close approaches to Europe&#8217;s most important, if elderly, geostationary satellites. These include <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intelsat.com\/global-network\/satellite-network\/launches\/intelsat-39\/\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Intelsat 39<\/a>, which orbits high enough above the Earth that it appears to be stationary above a single point on the Earth&#8217;s surface. Such a lofty perch makes them ideal platforms for communication, navigation and military purposes. And a prized potential target for a would-be adversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the last few years Earth-based telescopes and orbital cameras have spotted two Russian satellites, Luch-1 and Luch-2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-577053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}