They aren’t worried about those commercial sats, they are concerned that the Russian sat could easily maneuver close to one of the big NRO birds... the ones with 300ft+ mesh dish antennas.
Those sats are possibly our greatest sigint assets.
Greater than 85db of gain across a wide swath of bandwidth..
perhaps 100mhz-12ghz or so.
If it radiates at all those birds can pick it up and link it back to Fort Mead :-)
i wish the damn thing would crash down on ft meade. they are a frigging pox on this country.