{"id":49441,"date":"2026-01-31T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=49441"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:59:07","slug":"star-wars-just-started-as-secretive-military-russian-satellite-destroyed-via-a-fragmentation-event-followed-by-its-disintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=49441","title":{"rendered":"

“STAR WARS” Just Started!!! As secretive military Russian satellite destroyed via a “fragmentation event” followed by its disintegration<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian ‘inspector’ satellite appears to break apart in orbit, raising debris concerns<\/h1>\n

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after retirement, raising new concerns about debris in high Earth orbit.<\/h3>\n

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An illustration of satellites breaking up in Earth orbit.<\/span>\u00a0(Image credit: Mark Garlick\/Science Photo Library\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/h5>\n

By Andrew Jones
\nSpace.com<\/p>\n

A Russian satellite once used to inspect other spacecraft appears to have disintegrated in a graveyard orbit high above the Earth, according to ground-based imagery.<\/p>\n

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The Luch\/Olymp satellite, launched in 2014, is one of two secretive military Russian satellites that have been used to\u00a0stalk spacecraft from the US<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and others in the geostationary belt (GEO), around 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) above the equator. Luch\/Olymp (NORAD catalog number 40258) had recently been decommissioned and sent into a graveyard orbit a few hundred miles above GEO in October 2025.<\/p>\n