A Russian satellite shadows a US one for days in an unprecedented manoeuvre

The Russian craft carried out “a series of deliberate manoeuvres” around Iceye-X36 between October 15 and 19, alternating between positions ahead of and behind it A Russian military satellite, Kosmos-2612, manoeuvred for several days at close range to a commercial satellite operated by a US company that supplies images to Ukraine, coming within less than five kilometres, in what space-tracking specialists describe as an unprecedented approach between active satellites belonging to different owners.

Espace publicitaire · 300×250