A Russian spy satellite has carried out yet another suspicious maneuver in the Geosynchronous Orbit, as reported by Slingshot Aerospace.
Slingshot Aerospace’s Machine Learning – based object profiling engine tracked the most recent large maneuver by the Russian spacecraft on June 23.After Slingshot Global Sensor Network received the initial maneuver alert on Luch 2, it increased the surveillance around it. “Slingshot’s pattern of life software also predicted which satellite Luch 2 would visit next: USA Intelsat 1002 at ~1° W,” a
The nearest it had come to any communications satellite since its operation began in March 2023 was with the “Eutelsat’s KA-SAT 9A at a distance of approximately 20 km.”it is continuously tracking the Luch 2 and will keep reporting on the maneuvers it is going to make in the days ahead.in low Earth orbit, creating a debris cloud that forced the astronauts onboard the International Space Station to take shelter.