A Russian inspector satellite staged an extreme chase of an ICEYE spacecraft helping Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Why? And what is happening at all?

A Russian inspector satellite staged an extreme chase of an ICEYE spacecraft helping Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Why? And what is happening at all?

Another round of star wars between Russia and the West was recorded on October 18: on that day, the Russian military satellite Kosmos-2612 came within a record distance of a Finnish-American radar satellite (possibly tens of metres, compared with tens of kilometres previously). The manoeuvres performed by the spacecraft during this chase rapidly deplete their fuel reserves. But what could this give the Russian side? We have collected the existing theories in this article.

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The Kremlin escalates the star wars with the West: a Russian satellite may have approached a Finnish-American spacecraft in orbit closer…

Talk of “hunter” satellites and an intensifying space confrontation between Russia and the United States has been going on for a long time. But this week, the new star wars saw an unprecedented escalation. On October 18, a Russian inspector satellite came closer than ever to a Finnish…