USA 276 beside Zarya
An object of National Reconnaissance Office came up beside a satellite of NASA Johnson Space Flight Center, 6.4 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Jun 3, 2017
- no source states the end
- Closest stated
- 6.4 km
- Jun 3, 2017
- Orbit
- LEO
- low Earth orbit
The one that moved
USA 276
National Reconnaissance Office, United States
42689 · 2017-022 · launched May 1, 2017
The one it came up to
Zarya
NASA Johnson Space Flight Center, United States
25544 · 1998-067A · launched Nov 20, 1998
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- from Jun 3, 2017
- Closest statedJun 3, 2017
- closest approach on 3 June 2017 at 14:01:52 UT, 6.4 plus or minus 2 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.
| Said on | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2017 | Analyst | Marco Langbroek, "Close encounters of the classified kind", The Space Review, 3 July 2017 |
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