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Monday, August 25, 2008

Did Russians Use Space Station For Military Recon?


Cosmonaut Photographed South Ossetia From ISS, Aviation Week

"On Aug. 9 Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko used a digital camera equipped with an 800mm telephoto lens and a video camera to photograph "after-effects of border conflict operations in the Caucasus," according to the ISS status report for that day published by NASA on its website."

Source: NASA Watch

Russia appears to be behaving very badly, and I suspect that they will get away with it.


The diagram opposite is the Russian Polyus testbed for space weaponry, codenamed Skif-DM by NATO forces.

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