The Israeli military news outlet www.israelnews.com reported yesterday that the Russian satellite Kosmos-2570 launched two “military” objects into space. The fact, it says, “has caught the attention of LeoLabs specialists, who compare it to Russian Matryoshka dolls due to its ability to generate new objects.”
The detection of the Russian satellite launch by the “LeoLabs specialists” once again demonstrates that the radar system of the American company, which installed a radar in Tierra del Fuego but through its British and Irish subsidiaries, does have the capacity to track military targets, in addition to making observations of space debris, as argued by Guillermo Francos, Chief of Cabinet of Ministers of the Javier Milei government , as its only function; in order not to order the disarmament of the radar in Tierra del Fuego jurisdiction despite the serious warnings given by the General Staff of the Argentine Armed Forces in August 2023.
In this case, as described, Kosmos-2570 , initially identified by LeoLabs as Object C on October 30, “ created a new entity – Object D – on November 23.”
⚠️ We've detected a secondary object in close proximity to Object C, a payload released by Russian satellite COSMOS 2570 around October 30.
Our radar measurements indicate that this newest object was released by Object C, possibly on November 23 at 14:00 UTC. pic.twitter.com/D2bDvPSoRU
According to American observers, “a similar event had already occurred in 2022 when the Russian satellite Cosmos-2565 released another object, Cosmos-2566.” Multiplications of military devices that “make it difficult for the US authorities to distinguish the new objects, complicating the operation of other satellites in space,” describes the Israeli media.
LeoLabs ' assumptions about the satellite's behavior were confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense, which stated that the launched rocket had put “more than one spacecraft” into orbit. This launch took place on October 27, 2023, at 09:00 Moscow local time, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
Expert analysis revealed that the rocket initially took off in a vertical direction, then tilted northeast and aligned itself with an orbit of 67.1 degrees relative to the equator. In the first minutes of the flight, several component separations occurred: the boosters, the payload cover and the second stage of the rocket, all of which fell into designated areas in Russia, such as the Komi and Yamalo-Nenets regions.
Finally, after nine minutes of flight, the third stage of the rocket stopped operating and deployed its payload into orbit. This launch marks another step forward for the Liana constellation, used for Russian military intelligence activities.
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