Shiyan 12-02 beside SBIRS GEO-6
A satellite of Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad) came up beside a satellite of United States Space Force, 60 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Sep 11, 2025
- no source states the end
- Closest stated
- 60 km
- Sep 11, 2025
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit
The one that moved
Shiyan 12-02
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad), CN
50322 · 2021-129 · launched Dec 23, 2021
The one it came up to
SBIRS GEO-6
United States Space Force, United States
53355 · 2022-092A · launched Aug 4, 2022
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- from Sep 11, 2025
- Closest statedSep 11, 2025
- At POCA the 2 satellites were <60km from one another, 11 September 2025
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.
| Said on | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2025 | Tracker | Greg Gillinger, "China: SY-12 02 Conducts Flyby of US SBIRS GEO 6", Integrity Flash issue 129, 15 September 2025 |