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Defense News 🟡 Mentioned 23 Oct 2026

‘The West can’t stop me’: Space wars heat up as Russia tails a Ukraine-linked US satellite

ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite operated by the U.S. arm of Finnish company ICEYE, supplies imagery to Ukraine’s military through some of the company’s spacecraft. Russia’s Cosmos 2612 maneuvered toward it for more than two weeks and shadowed it as closely as about a third of a mile during the weekend of Oct. 17.
The Russian satellite, Cosmos 2612, spent more than two weeks maneuvering toward ICEYE-X36, a radar satellite operated by the American arm of Finnish company ICEYE that supplies imagery to Ukraine’s military through some of its spacecraft, then shadowed it from as close as a third of a mile through the weekend of Oct. 17.
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