Russia: Orbit Decay of Missile Warning Satellites?
5 Jan 2026: Russia appears to be struggling to maintain its 4-satellite missile warning constellation. The Tundra/Kupol constellation was meant to consist of 8-10 satellites (as it had…
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5 Jan 2026: Russia appears to be struggling to maintain its 4-satellite missile warning constellation. The Tundra/Kupol constellation was meant to consist of 8-10 satellites (as it had…
25 Nov 2025: Tahir Azad published an article in Small Wars Journal describing China’s “growing satellite networks, which include navigation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), communications, and missile…
China reported that DF-26B and DF-21D missiles launched in August successfully hit a moving target ship near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
2 Nov 2022: Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b from Plesetsk Cosmodrome with the 6th satellite of Russia's Tundra/Kupol next-generation early warning system. It was designated Kosmos-2563 after reaching orbit.…
Doing research for this launch I came across a very interesting press report from Taiwan. The report was published in April 2024 and discussed some activity involving Chinese…
18 Dec: China placed its TJS-13 (62188), launched on 3 Dec 2024, into a Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) with an apogee of 38,675.8km, a perigee of 1,687.8km and…
TJS-7 relocated from 146.5°E to roughly 99.6°W, making it the only known Chinese geostationary satellite positioned over the Western Hemisphere.
The issue reviews alleged GLONASS secondary payloads for nuclear detection, military search-and-rescue and naval SIGINT targeting support.
Russia launched a classified payload believed to be the fifth EKS/Tundra missile-warning satellite into a Molniya orbit on 25 November 2021.
A mid-course ballistic missile intercept test conducted on 4 February 2021 may have been an Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test. China's Ministry of Defense announced the test achieved all of…
From the February 2021 Space Review - In May 2020, Russia launched the fourth of its new-generation missile early warning satellites called Tundra. Flying in highly elliptical orbits…
China’s array of long-range surveillance assets have increased and improved dramatically since 2006, using satellites and over-the-horizon radars to support maritime targeting.