Kosmos 2499 broke apart in early January, according to the U.S. Space Force.
The 18th SDS did not speculate about the cause of the breakup. And that's far from the only mystery surrounding Kosmos 2499.
The satellite launched to Earth orbit in May 2014 atop a Russian Rockot vehicle along with three Rodnik military communications satellites,Kosmos 2499 wasn't officially on the launch manifest; U.S. satellite trackers initially cataloged it as a piece of debris called Object E, Zak wrote. But then the"debris" began making maneuvers, apparently closing in on the Rockot's Briz-M upper stage.
"By the end of October [2014], the U.S. officially re-classified Object E as 'payload' instead of a 'fragment' and finally cataloged it as Kosmos 2499 ," Zak wrote."The U.S. military was now rechecking orbital parameters of the mysterious satellite three or four times a day!" Analyses of orbital elements indicate that Kosmos 2499 got within just 0.47 miles of the Briz-M on Nov. 9, 2014, according to Zak. The spacecraft soon backed off but made an even closer approach on Nov. 25, coming within 0.33 miles of the rocket body.
Such activities led to speculation that Kosmos 2499 and Kosmos 2491, a seemingly similar object that launched to Earth orbit in December 2013, were testing tech that could allow spacecraft to chase down and perhaps even disable other satellites.
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