In the Sky, the Sign of a New Cold War?
A bird? A plane? A Satellite-killing Satellite? A space vacuum-cleaner? A Russian space object launches a debate
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Some people call it the space vacuum.
Don't look now, but there is an unidentified object in orbit in outer space, launched there by the Russian military last spring that has satellite-trackers, amateur space-watchers, and bedroom Kremlinologists wondering, and wondering whether they should be worrying. (Join in here!)