Media: Russia will lay out in the open access information about US military satellites – RIA Novosti

05:43 22.06.2016

(updated: 07:19 22.06.2016 )

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MOSCOW, June 22 – RIA Novosti. The head of the Russian delegation at the 59th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes Victor Shilin told the newspaper “Izvestia” that Russia plans to lay out in the open access its catalog of near-Earth objects.

Russian service will be analogous to the US NORAD catalog, but it will not only civil satellites and space debris, but also information that is not in the open data the US space defense command USSPACECOM. Along with the objects of military NORAD covers data on defense satellites allies – France, Germany, Israel and Japan. At the same time, Russian military satellites are present in the directory.

Moscow offers to combine national databases into a single directory accessible to any country carrying out space activities. This system could be informed about potentially dangerous events for devices in space and objects in the world, as well as to warn about possible threats to missile launches.

This initiative in the UN supported China, the United States voted against, wishing to preserve their monopoly “motion controller” in the near-Earth space, the newspaper said another participant of the meeting, adding that the US military were not thrilled with the idea of ​​the emergence of freely available information on its satellites.

“The Americans can not worry about the declassification of orbital data of its military spacecraft – it will happen in any case”, – concluded the Shilin

In May, the Pentagon has accused Russia and China, for capacity building for the US attack. space. Of particular concern to the US military is the fate of the satellite. Then the statements of the US Ministry of Defence experts have linked with the preparation of the regular military budget, in which the Pentagon seeks to maximize the articles in opposition to the imaginary threat.

Moscow has repeatedly offered to demilitarize outer space. So, in April, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has promised that the country will not be the first to deploy a weapon there. The Foreign Ministry also noted that the location of nuclear power in space can lead to an uncontrolled arms race. At the end of last year, Russia submitted a relevant draft resolution to the UN General Assembly, where the paper blocked the United States.