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Four Russian Military Satellites Came Within 13 Kilometers of a Radar Satellite Operated by a Finnish Company that Supplies Ukraine with Battlefield Imagery. ‘Legitimate Targets,’ Moscow Said in 2022.

Summary by Meduza
Dangerous maneuvers in orbit Last month, four Russian military satellites — Kosmos-2610, Kosmos-2611, Kosmos-2612, and Kosmos-2613 — altered their orbits and moved toward ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite that has been supplying data to Ukraine’s military since 2022, according to a May 22 report by the analytics firm Integrity ISR. The dangerous maneuvers came several months after the Finnish-American satellite operator ICEYE and Ukraine’s Defense Mi…

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Four Russian satellites changed their orbits in May and then approached the Finnish ICEYE-X36 radar satellite, which transmits important images to the Ukrainian military, reports the Russian opposition newspaper Meduza. The incident raised the possibility that the Russians deliberately targeted the device that helps Ukrainians defend themselves, but not all experts agree. Russia launched six new satellites on April 17. No information was release…

·Budapest, Hungary
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While the attention of the world remains focused on Ukraine's front, a much more discreet confrontation seems to take place hundreds of kilometers above the Earth.

·Romania
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