US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons

US Space Command says Russia has moved co-orbital anti-satellite weapons from testing to active deployment, a direct threat to the 5,500+ satellites in low Earth orbit. This operationalization jeopardizes global communications and navigation networks, which rely on a 99.9% uptime standard for GPS accuracy within 5 meters. Compared to Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats's privacy change, this escalation has a far broader impact, and it outpaces typical ASAT development timelines by 18 months.