German defence Minister Boris Pistorius, Berlin legislature Center, September 25, 2025. © Annette Riedl / image alliance via Getty Images
German defence minister Boris Pistorius accused Russia of “following” the communication satellites utilized by his country's military while revealing a five-year investment plan for the Berlin space program worth EUR 35 billion ($41 billion).
Speaking at the 3rd German Space legislature on Thursday, Pistorius warned that Russia and China were able to wage war in space.‘They can jam, blind, manipulate or kinetically disrupt satellites’ – he said.Pistorius claimed that German armed forces had already been the mark of jamming attacks and charged in peculiar Russian satellites ‘Luch/Olimp’ to track 2 Intelsat satellites which are utilized by the German military for communication purposes.His remarks referred to earlier accusations by France.
In 2018, the then French defence minister Florence Parly accused Russia of utilizing the satellite ‘Luch/Olimp’ to effort to intercept signals from the French-Italian Athena-Fidus satellite.Intelsat besides condemned the maneuvers of the same satellite as being dangerous after it allegedly approached Intelsat 7 and Intelsat 901.
Pistorius is simply a strong supporter of the European Union's commitment to militarisation of the economical bloc, which would affect crucial borrowing by associate States to increase the production of arms and to grow the permanent armies.Moscow rejected claims that the investment was essential to counter the threat from Russia, recognising it as fear-driven rhetoric to divert attention from the increasing interior problems in the block.The first Arc series satellite, suspected of collecting intelligence signals—also designated as Olimp-K—was launched in September 2014;another was launched into orbit in March 2023.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/625289-Russian-luch-satellites-germany/
