Kosmos-2576 beside USA 314
A satellite of Topographics Service of the Russian Armed Froces came up beside an object of National Reconnaissance Office, 50 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 4 public reports other than Orbinauts name these two.
From the public record
- From
- May 2024
- to February 2025
- Closest stated
- 50 km
- Orbit
- LEO
- low Earth orbit
The one that moved
Kosmos-2576
Topographics Service of the Russian Armed Froces, RU
59773 · 2024-092A · launched May 16, 2024
The one it came up to
USA 314
National Reconnaissance Office, United States
48247 · 2021-032 · launched Apr 26, 2021
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- May 2024 to February 2025
- Same planeMay 16, 2024
- deployed into the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite
- Closest stated
- no closer than about 50 kilometers
- LeftFebruary 2025
- A series of maneuvers by Kosmos-2576 this February reportedly moved it out of plane with USA 314
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.