{"id":201826,"date":"2020-02-02T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201826"},"modified":"2020-02-05T06:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:50:42","slug":"mysterious-russian-spacecraft-has-maneuvered-into-orbit-right-behind-a-4-billion-us-spy-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201826","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Russian spacecraft has maneuvered into orbit right behind a $4 billion US spy satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Pentagon is worried it could be preparing for an attack<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Cosmos 2542 is a Russian &#8216;space apparatus inspector&#8217; designed to monitor other satellites in space\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>After it launched in November 2019, it was bypassing\u00a0a US spy satellite, USA 245, every 11 or 12 days\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>However, between January 20-23, Cosmos 2542 made several maneuvers to end up in the same orbit as the US satellite<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>It is now closely following USA 245, which experts say could mean it is taking photos or preparing to attack<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mary Kekatos \u2013 Daily Mail Jan 31, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A Russian &#8216;inspector&#8217; spacecraft has changed its orbit to closely follow a secret American spy satellite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On January 20, Cosmos 2542 maneuvered so it was behind USA 245, a satellite that gathers images for military and intelligence purposes for the $4billion KH-11 photo reconnaissance project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Russian craft is a &#8216;space apparatus inspector,&#8217; meaning it&#8217;s designed to monitor other satellites in space &#8211; and the US government has warned that it can use cameras and sensors to gather information about other satellites or even use high-power microwaves, lasers or radio frequency jammers to launch an attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Something to potentially watch: Cosmos 2542, a Russian inspection satellite, has recently synchronized its orbit with USA 245, an NRO KH11.<br \/>A thread: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LqvYiIYBMd\">pic.twitter.com\/LqvYiIYBMd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Thompson (@M_R_Thomp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_R_Thomp\/status\/1222990126650994698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Russian &#8216;inspector&#8217; spacecraft Cosmsos 2542 appears to have changed orbits so it can closely follow American spy satellite USA 245.\u00a0Pictured: Cosmos 2542 following USA 245<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Cosmos 2542 was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome &#8211; some 600 miles north of Moscow &#8211; on November 25, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the time, the government claimed only other Russian satellites would be inspected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The spacecraft, created on the basis of a unified multifunctional space platform, is launched into the target orbit from which the state of domestic satellites can be monitored,&#8217; according to a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/function.mil.ru\/news_page\/country\/more.htm?id=12263690@egNews\"><strong>statement <\/strong><\/a>from the Russian Ministry of Defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The optical equipment of the spacecraft also allows you to take pictures of the Earth&#8217;s surface.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When the satellite first launched, its original orbit meant it would pass USA 245 every 11 or 12 days. according to Michael Thompson, a graduate student\u00a0studying satellites and astrodynamics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a Twitter <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_R_Thomp\/status\/1222990126650994698\"><strong>thread<\/strong><\/a>, Thomspon explained how the Russian satellite innocuously moved closer to the American one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He says the satellites closely approached each other on January 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;But instead of then drifting away as usual, Cosmos 2542 performed a series of maneuvers on the 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd to match the period of USA 245,&#8217; he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This means that instead of passing each other every two weeks, the Russian satellite is right behind the American spycraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Cosmos 2542 is loitering around USA 245 in consistent view,&#8217; Thomspon tweeted on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;As I&#8217;m typing this, that offset distance shifts between 150 and 300 kilometers [93.2 and 186.4 miles] depending on the location in the orbit.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With such a close range, it allows Cosmos 2542 to take numerous photographs of USA 245.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The relative orbit is actually pretty cleverly designed,&#8217; Thompson wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Cosmos 2542 can observe one side of the KH-11 when both satellites first come into sunlight, and by the time they enter eclipse, it has migrated to the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;This is all circumstantial evidence, but there are a hell of a lot of circumstances that make it look like a known Russian inspection satellite is currently inspecting a known US spy satellite.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Neither the Russian government nor the US government have commented on the satellites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7952927\/Mysterious-Russian-spacecraft-maneuvered-orbit-right-4-billion-spy-satellite.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Russian satellite manoeuvring into position to strike the U.S. spy satellite? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201830,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201826\/revisions\/201830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}