USA 253 beside Tian Lian 2-01
A satellite of US Air Force Space Command came up beside a satellite of Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad), 88.4 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Feb 26, 2020
- no source states the end
- Closest stated
- 88.4 km
- Feb 26, 2020
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 79.8° E
The one that moved
USA 253
US Air Force Space Command, United States
40099 · 2014-043A · launched Jul 28, 2014
The one it came up to
Tian Lian 2-01
Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing (CASC 5th Acad), CN
44076 · 2019-017A · launched Mar 31, 2019
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- from Feb 26, 2020
- Closest statedFeb 26, 2020
- Feb 26, 2020: Tianlian 2-01, 88.4 km, fly-around
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.