Friday, June 7, 2024

Sky Spy: Out of This World Espionage

Russian satellite is caught spying on another satellite... The French company Aldoria Space, which tracks objects in orbit using a network of ground-based telescopes, has published a very revealing record. It demonstrates how the Russian Luch-2 inspection satellite approaches other spacecraft.

The rendezvous took place on April 12, 2024, in geostationary orbit. After that, Aldoria Space gave a warning to satellite operators about the sudden maneuvers of the Russian spacecraft.

Aldoria Space didn’t report which satellite was spied on by Luch-2. 

Such maneuvers are not uncommon for Russian and Chinese spacecraft, which have been repeatedly caught spying on other satellites.  more

The rendezvous of the Russian spy satellite Luch-2 with another spacecraft.