Russian military satellite makes ‘close approach’ to U.S. radar satellite in orbit
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Russia’s Cosmos-2612 satellite has changed its orbit repeatedly to approach ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar-imaging satellite registered in the U.S. and whose operator currently supplies data to Ukraine
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