Russia Registering Maneuvers Of US Subsatellite Since April - Astro Space Center

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 27th January, 2019) The Russian track means have registered that two small spacecraft had detached from a large US military carrier satellite on the geostationary orbit, and Russia has been registering maneuvers of one of these spacecraft since 2018, the Russian Astro Space Center said in a document obtained by Sputnik on Sunday.

According to the document, the Russian automated system for warning about hazardous situations in the near-Earth space environment registered the detachment of USA-285 and USA-286 subsatellites from the EAGLE carrier satellite on April 23, 2018. The analysis of their movement revealed an unpredictable change in the trajectory of one of them, which may be a sign of maneuvering capabilities, the document said.