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The earth’s orbit is gradually becoming a tense chessboard. The last play has been starred by Russia with the deployment of an unknown object by the spy satellite Kosmos 2558.<\/p>\n

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Short.<\/strong> On June 26, a Russian military satellite that had been monitoring an American spy satellite for three years decided to release a new object. This is not the first time this behavior has been observed from a Russian satellite. In fact, “it is the third time this happens in five years, and the second this year,” according to an analysis<\/a> by expert Marco Langbroek.<\/p>\n

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A Russian doll in space.<\/strong> The protagonist of this story is Kosmos 2558, a military satellite that Russia launched into space in August 2022. Since its orbit, its mission has been an open secret: to closely monitor and relentlessly pursue the USA’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite, designated 326. Almost three years after starting its surveillance, Kosmos 2558 has released a subsatellite, referred to as ‘object C’.<\/p>\n

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Langbroek’s observations at Sattrackcam in Leiden, Netherlands, confirmed this behavior. His telescope captured the new ‘object C’<\/a> on the night of June 28, two and a half days after its separation from the primary satellite. The new object appeared just 16 seconds after Kosmos 2558, already at a distance of 143 kilometers. Langbroek compared this behavior<\/a> to a Russian ‘matryoshka’ doll, where one satellite releases others.<\/p>\n

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The orbital harassment of the levelir program.<\/strong> This has not been an isolated incident but rather the latest piece of a Russian space initiative known as ‘levelir’. The objective of these “inspector satellites” is not just surveillance; their aim is to create tension among nations by demonstrating certain orbital capabilities:<\/p>\n

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