Jackal-0004 beside VICTUS HAZE Puma
A satellite of True Anomaly Inc. came up beside a satellite of US Space Force Space Systems Command, 10 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 6 public reports other than Orbinauts name these two.
From the public record
- From
- June 2026
- to July 2026
- Closest stated
- 10 km
- July 2026
- Orbit
- LEO
- low Earth orbit
The one that moved
Jackal-0004
True Anomaly Inc., United States
69012 · 2026-100AJ · launched May 3, 2026
The one it came up to
VICTUS HAZE Puma
US Space Force Space Systems Command, United States
69646 · 2026-142A · launched Jun 19, 2026
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- June 2026 to July 2026
- Same planeJun 19, 2026
- VH Puma passed about 100 km from JACKAL 004 at about 1751 UTC Jun 19; it will approach and probably fly in formation with True Anomaly's JACKAL-004
- BesideJune 2026
- Space Systems Command tasked us to execute this sortie within 72 hours; completed in 61 hours, with multiple circumnavigations and multi-aspect imagery of Puma, whose launch into a previously unknown orbit our sensors acquired within hours
- Closest statedJuly 2026
- Jackal closed to ~10 km of Puma, within the target guidance of 10 to 20 km
- LeftJuly 2026
- The log also shows bursts of large orbit changes by Puma in late July and at the end of August
The detector was running with both objects’ element sets and did not hold them beside each other.
Reported elsewhere
Who else said these two were together, earliest first.