 The U.S. working on combat spacecraft capable of wrecking Russian satellites. The United States is working on small-sized space weapons that would be capable of knocking out Russian spacecraft. Chief of the Moseysky Military Space Academy General Major Anatoly Nesterchuk said, What's known as small combat spacecraft is under development and certain samples have already been developed and are undergoing trials. They are able to perform a covert manoeuvre. Closely approach our spacecraft and knock it out. The General said at a round table dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Strategic Defense Initiative SDI of the U.S. and the Space Militarization Program. Though the U.S. program closed in 1993, de facto it still exists nowadays. Nesterchuk said, The SDI program did not end. It continues in new transformations and positions. The General added. Images owned by private companies have played an unexpectedly important role in the war in Ukraine. For example, in early August 2022, images from the private satellite company Planet Labs showed that a recent attack on a Russian military base in Crimea caused more damage than Russia had suggested in public reports. Soon after the war began, Ukraine requested data from private satellite companies around the world. At the end of April, Ukraine was getting imagery from U.S. companies, mere minutes after the data was collected. Remote sensing satellites circled the Earth collecting imagery, radio signals and many other types of data. The technology was originally developed by governments from military reconnaissance, weather forecasting and environmental monitoring.