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Why Is This Russian Satellite Stalking a U.S. Spy Satellite in Orbit? Kosmos 2542, a Russian inspector satellite, synchronized its orbit with a U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite called USA 245, and is now trailing the classified satellite from a distance of about 186 miles, MIT Technology Review reports.
Michael Thompson, a graduate student in astrophysics at Purdue University, first raised the alarm about the set of maneuvers on Twitter. Experts believe the Russian satellite may be collecting intel about the U.S. spy satellite.
Something to potentially watch: Cosmos 2542, a Russian inspection satellite, has recently synchronized its orbit with USA 245, an NRO KH11.
Then, on January 20, the Russian satellite used its onboard thrusters to perform the first of four maneuvers—the rest occurred over the next three days—to position itself closer to USA 245. Raising even more suspicion, the two satellites are farthest away from each other in Earth’s shadow and at their closest when in the sunlight—prime conditions for surveillance.
“Things do move around in low Earth orbit, but to expend your valuable propellant in this way to perfectly position yourself to view another satellite like this to me is just beyond the pale,” Thomas Roberts, who was an aerospace security fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told MIT Technology Review. “It’s not a coincidence.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a30767105/russian-satellite-stalking-us-spy-satellite/
KH-9 (BYEMAN codename HEXAGON), commonly known as Big Bird[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-9_Hexagon
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/30/755994591/president-trump-tweets-sensitive-surveillance-image-of-iran