Mystery Russian Spacecraft Stalking a Secret U.S. Spy Satellite?
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Mystery Russian Spacecraft Stalking a Secret U.S. Spy Satellite?
Interesting article on something called 'The Daily Beast'.
Article intro:-
Article intro:-
A mysterious Russian spacecraft has maneuvered into a new orbit around Earth right behind a secret U.S. spy satellite.
The unusual move by Russian Cosmos 2542 on Jan. 20 allows it to closely watch the American KH-11, a $4 billion orbital telescope staring down at Earth. And there’s not much that U.S. space operators can do about it.
The unusual move by Russian Cosmos 2542 on Jan. 20 allows it to closely watch the American KH-11, a $4 billion orbital telescope staring down at Earth. And there’s not much that U.S. space operators can do about it.
right behind a secret U.S. spy satellite.
a $4 billion orbital telescope staring down at Earth.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
And it isn’t particularly secret any more either. I would imagine most modern Russian, Chinese and French military and commercial satellites have roughly equal capabilities. Optics don’t change and the size of the latest CCDs is pretty well known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
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Perhaps the Russians have some sort of 'fog dispenser' to obscure the KH-11 imagery at critical moments?
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The USA doesn't own space, and to keep to the same orbital track of any object is a very difficult. There are many gravitational anomalies that alter orbitals.
This is nothing more than sensationalism and Us/Them brain dead mentality.
Besides why shouldn't Russia track any satellites... Everyone does it
This is nothing more than sensationalism and Us/Them brain dead mentality.
Besides why shouldn't Russia track any satellites... Everyone does it
Avoid imitations
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Strangely enough, a few years ago, I was watching the ISS passing over on a very clear night. I was surprised and intrigued to see a second object in close trail. I checked to see if there was a resupply mission to the ISS and there was not. I’ve no idea what it was. Maybe the technology has been around longer than we have been told.
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A continuing discussion in this SeeSat-L thread:
Re: Kosmos 2542/2543 vs USA 245? from Nico Janssen via Seesat-l on 2020-01-02 (SeeSat-L Jan-20 )
Re: Kosmos 2542/2543 vs USA 245? from Nico Janssen via Seesat-l on 2020-01-02 (SeeSat-L Jan-20 )
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Why is this "a news"? Maybe for paper back writers from this Daily Beast....
1. Both US and SU are playing these games since 70's - 80's. This type of spacecraft is called "orbital inspector".
2. KH-11 family of the US spy sats is well-known and even studied by students in military colleges. The last KH-11 was launched in 2013 and is not brand new.
So, just one more example how junk news are trying to seed suspiciousness and tension.
P.S. Linear resolution of its telescope is about 15 cm in ideal conditions. Perhaps only size F bra owners may have some concern while taking a bath in an open air :-)
1. Both US and SU are playing these games since 70's - 80's. This type of spacecraft is called "orbital inspector".
2. KH-11 family of the US spy sats is well-known and even studied by students in military colleges. The last KH-11 was launched in 2013 and is not brand new.
So, just one more example how junk news are trying to seed suspiciousness and tension.
P.S. Linear resolution of its telescope is about 15 cm in ideal conditions. Perhaps only size F bra owners may have some concern while taking a bath in an open air :-)
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no different to what the X-37 will be getting up to I expect. A good way of figuring out operating frequencies and operational capabilities particularly of signals monitoring antennae and the like.
