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>How do you put a satellite in orbit without anyone knowing about it? You hide it with another satellite! Heh. There was a Russian launch recently where a pie
by gozur88 9y ago
>How do you put a satellite in orbit without anyone knowing about it? You hide it with another satellite!
Heh. There was a Russian launch recently where a piece of "debris" started moving under its own power after stage separation.
http://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-satellite-sparks-concerns-russia-has-developed-space-weapon/ http://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-satellite-sparks-...
- lsaferite 9y agoThat article has no date attached. I find that infuriating.
- grzm 9y agoNot unusual for aggregation sites like that, unfortunately. The FT article it in turn does cite has a dateline of November 17, 2014. https://www.ft.com/content/cdd0bdb6-6c27-11e4-990f-00144feabdc0# https://www.ft.com/content/cdd0bdb6-6c27-11e4-990f-00144feab... The year is also reflected in the naming of the object, by the way: Object 2014-28E.
- arprocter 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_2499 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_2499