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Xavier Not co, director of the Foundation for Strategic Research and specialist in space issues, is the guest of 11 p.m. Tuesday, November 16. It takes stock of the tensions observed over the past few years in space.
The destruction of a satellite by a Russian missile and the production of debris it generated, putting the astronauts of the international space station at risk (ISS), is one fire among others in space where tensions have been developing for several years. “Diplomatic tensions and posturing a little military, a little strategic. We have satellites that come closer to each other, in a more or less friendly way and then there are these shots ”, comments Xavier Not co, director of the Foundation for Strategic Research and specialist in space issues.
Monday’s Russian shooting still raises questions, since two Russian astronauts are currently on board theISS. “The interception takes place almost 500 kilometers, which is roughly the altitude of the space station”, indicates the expert before underlining that in space, a debris of 1 cm can cross a satellite right through, “The energies produced at these speeds are extremely strong”. However, the destruction of the satellite produced a great deal of uncontrolled debris.