The Yorkshire Coast monitoring station was involved in tracking a Russian anti satellite missile test.
NATO's secretary-general has accused Russia of being "reckless" after conducting a weapons test in space.
They fired a missile at an old satellite - blowing it up - but that created more than 15-hundred pieces of debris.
Those fragments now risk damaging the international space station as it orbits earth.
The test was monitored by space and defence agencies around the world with RAF Fylingdales confirming that UK Space Command and Serco Group analysts at Fylingdales monitored the event.
They say :
"Our personnel track thousands of objects in space to monitor & mitigate risks to space satellites & systems"
UK Space Command say the Russian test, conducted over the weekend, has resulted in the creation of debris that will remain in orbit for years, posing a risk to crewed space missions and assets in Low Earth Orbit.
Air Vice-MArshall Paul Godfrey is the Commander of UK Space Command, he said:
"Space is already a congested and contested domain, and irresponsible actions like this threaten the peaceful use of space by all"
The UK Space Command is a Joint Command staffed from the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force and the Civil Service. It officially formed on 1 April 2021.
UK Space Command is located at RAF High Wycombe, alongside RAF Air Command.
Along side it's missile defence work, RAF Fylingdales also monitors objects in space that can easily resemble incoming missiles when re-entering the atmosphere and feeds data into the UK Space Command systems.
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