Anti-satellite missile tested from Plesetsk for the second time in 2020

A top-secret missile launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Arkhangelsk region earlier this week was a weapon capable of destroying satellites in low orbit. Indications of a launch from Plesetsk came as NOTAM warnings were issued for three areas in the Russian Arctic in a straight line north from the cosmodrome. The areas were coincident with the fall-down of different stages of a space missile; east of Cape Kanin, over Novaya Zemlya and the last over Severnaya Zemlya. Pentagon considers the missile test as a rapidly advancing threats to its own space systems. “Russia publicly claims  it is working to…