YFarmX Space · Security desk
Jamming, spoofing, anti-satellite tests and the defence of the systems overhead. Reported from primary sources, without theatrics.
A cyberattack disrupted Viasat's KA-SAT satellite broadband network about an hour before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, causing what the EU called indiscriminate communication outages across public authorities, businesses and users in Ukraine and several member states.
Attributed to Russia by the EU's High Representative on behalf of the Union (10 May 2022) and by the UK's NCSC, which names the GRU.
A direct-ascent anti-satellite missile destroyed Russia's own defunct Cosmos 1408, creating more than 1,500 pieces of trackable debris; US Space Command said the test would likely generate hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces.
US Space Command, on the record: Russia demonstrated a deliberate disregard for the security, safety, stability and long-term sustainability of the space domain.
China destroyed its own defunct Fengyun-1C weather satellite with a ground-launched kinetic kill vehicle. NASA's Orbital Debris Programme Office catalogued more than 1,600 fragments within three months, the largest debris-generating event on record at the time; fragments remain in orbit today.
The test is undisputed and internationally acknowledged; the debris count is NASA's.
India's DRDO struck the Indian Microsat-R satellite in low Earth orbit in the country's first anti-satellite test. India's foreign ministry stated the test was conducted low deliberately so that debris would decay and fall back within weeks — the ministry's own claim, recorded as such.
Announced by India's own government; conducted by DRDO per the Ministry of Defence.
Indian Ministry of Defence (PIB) · MEA Mission Shakti FAQ (official mirror)
EASA records a notable increase in satellite-navigation jamming and spoofing affecting aviation, particularly around the Baltic, Black Sea, Mediterranean, Middle East and Arctic, and has revised its safety bulletin repeatedly — most recently on 3 July 2026.
The regulator describes affected regions without formally naming a responsible state.
The White House confirmed US intelligence concerns an anti-satellite capability Russia is developing, while stating it is not an active deployed capability and poses no immediate threat to anyone's safety. Moscow publicly rejects the reports and states its opposition to nuclear weapons in space.
White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby, on the record; the Russian rejection is public but its own transcript has not been checked by this desk.
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Navigation satellite
A medium Earth orbit navigation bus, its whole Earth-facing side a phased array of patch elements.
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