GSSAP vehicle beside Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 1
An unidentified GSSAP vehicle came up beside a satellite of China Aerospace Corp, 15 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Sep 13, 2016
- no source states the end
- Closest stated
- 15 km
- Sep 13, 2016
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit
The one that moved
GSSAP vehicle
US Air Force Space Command, United States
one of 40099, 40100, 41744, 41745
The one it came up to
Tongxin Jishu Shiyan 1
China Aerospace Corp, CN
40892 · 2015-046A · launched Sep 12, 2015
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- from Sep 13, 2016
- Closest statedSep 13, 2016
- Sept 13, 2016: TJS-1, 15 km
The detector was not yet running: it reads low Earth orbit since April 2026 and the geostationary belt since October 2026.
Reported elsewhere
Who else said these two were together, earliest first.