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Today we honor the generations of veterans who have served our nation and defended our freedoms throughout 250 years of American history.
To every veteran, thank you for your service and sacrifice.
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It’s the final day of #TASTI2026 in Tainan! Here are a few more photos from our time at the event, including COMSPOC CEO Paul Graziani with @TASA_Taiwan Director General Jong-Shinn Wu and National Science and Technology Council Minister Cheng-Wen Wu. 📸
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth or joined us for our live SSA ops center demonstration this week.
Still at TASTI? Join us in conference room Nusantaria E2 for a live SSA ops center demo and experience what we mean when we say, “Awareness you can act on.” Or stop by booth W142 to learn about our software.
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Happening now at #TASTI2026 🛰️
Here’s a look at COMSPOC’s booth and live demo of our SSA operations center at ICC Tainan.
Attending TASTI? Stop by booth W142 to meet our team or visit conference room Nusantaria E2 for a live demo.
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See SSASuite in action at #TASTI2026! 🛰️
Join the COMSPOC team at ICC Tainan, Nov. 8-11, for a live demonstration of our SSA operations center.
📍 Find the ops center in the Nusantaria section of conference rooms, E2.
Request an ops center demo at TASTI: comspoc.com/events/tasti-202…
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Meet with COMSPOC at #TASTI2026 to see how SSASuite delivers “awareness you can act on.” 🛰️
Our commercial-off-the-shelf SSA platform provides highly accurate, actionable SSA to support your space operations.
Visit Booth W142 at ICC Tainan, Nov. 8-11, to learn how SSASuite delivers low latency maneuver detection and realistic covariance estimates.
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Could there be another ICEYE RPO?
On 17 Oct COSMOS 2612 passed 59 m from ICEYE-X36. Two of its launch mates, COSMOS 2611 and COSMOS 2613, now sit in a similar setup with ICEYE-X37, which launched with X36 on 4 Mar 2024.
On distance alone there is little to see. COSMOS 2611 is about 11,800 km from ICEYE-X37 and COSMOS 2613 about 13,500 km, both well around the orbit from it. The orbits are where it gets interesting.
Our predictive rendezvous job has tracked 2611 against X37. Their planes are now 0.035° apart and still closing, reaching 0.021° on 10 Nov. Matching orbits takes 0.5 m/s to adjust altitude and 2.6 m/s to tilt the plane.
The same job flagged COSMOS 2613 against X37 on 2 Nov. Their planes come closest early on 5 Nov UTC, 0.051° apart. Matching orbits takes 1.7 m/s to adjust altitude and 6.7 m/s to tilt the plane.
Those costs assume the planes are lined up, so they apply around 5 Nov for 2613 and from 10 Nov on for 2611. In perspective, COSMOS 2612 spent a little over 30 m/s on its recent approach to X36, between 12 and 20 Oct.
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COMSPOC is a sponsor of the 8th Summit for Space Sustainability, taking place Nov. 4-5 in Brasília, Brazil.
COMSPOC Chief Scientist Dan Oltrogge will join the panel “Misconnections and Matchmaking: Reflections on Regulatory Requirements, Design, and Burden” on Nov. 5 from 4 to 5:15 p.m. The discussion will examine how governments and industry can address regulatory challenges while protecting the space environment and supporting space sector development.
Thank you to @SWFoundation and the Brazilian Space Agency for organizing this forum.
Attending the summit? Contact us to schedule a meeting with Dan: comspoc.com/contact-us
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At #TASTI2026, Nov. 8-11 in Tainan, Taiwan, COMSPOC will demonstrate Mission Awareness Services (MAS), a set of secure, REST-based analysis tools that use data from SSASuite or any external SSA source to produce operational answers.
MAS helps operators:
* Assess co-orbital and direct-ascent ASAT risk
* Identify and geolocate likely sources of RF interference
* Plan conjunction- and EMI-avoidance maneuvers and LEO/GEO relocations
* Evaluate PNT, ISR, communications, and sensor coverage
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Visit Booth W142 or schedule a private meeting to see MAS in action: comspoc.com/events/tasti-202…
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How close did COSMOS 2612 come to ICEYE X36 on Oct. 17? Analysis by @COMSPOC_OPS, shared over social media last weekend and picked up by @NASASpaceflight's “This Week in Spaceflight,” shows an estimated closest approach at about 60 meters, with a relative speed of less than one meter per second. 🛰️
Thank you to NASASpaceflight for highlighting our analysis and for your ongoing efforts to explain satellite behavior in orbit.
Watch the COSMOS-ICEYE segment, starting at 25:10: youtu.be/udys8It4_ps?si=6aNr…
In a recent article about Astroscale’s proposed “bodyguard” spacecraft, @SPACEdotcom linked to @COMSPOC_OPS' Oct. 24 post about COSMOS 2612’s close approach to ICEYE X36.
Read the article: space.com/space-exploration/…
COSMOS 2612 (SSC.68762) walks up to ICEYE-X36 (SSC.59103)
In July we posted on the Cosmos 2609–2614 group. Back then we flagged COSMOS 2612 as the satellite best placed to reach ICEYE-X36. Three months later, it did.
Analysis via COMSPOC SSA.
On 1 October COSMOS 2612 raised its orbit ~47 km. The higher orbit gave it a fast catch-up drift, and it passed ICEYE-X36 at ~55 km on 5 October and again on 12 October. Within about two hours of the second pass it made two retrograde burns (~27 m/s total) and dropped back to ICEYE-X36’s altitude, ~515 km behind it. Between 13 and 16 October seven small burns (~5 m/s total) closed that gap.
By 16 October COSMOS 2612 was in ICEYE-X36’s plane (within 0.003°) and at its altitude. Since the two share a plane, there are no plane crossings to wait for. From 16–18 October they spent ~24 hours within 2 km of each other and ~12 hours within 1 km. First pass was ~220 m (max uncertainty ~490 m) near 14:03 UTC on 16 October. It then held 2–4 km behind before drawing level on 17 October and settling into a centred safety ellipse around ICEYE-X36, which it held for the rest of the day. Closest pass in our solution was ~60 m (max uncertainty ~950 m) near 14:18 UTC. By late on 17 October it had drifted ~2 km ahead, then trimmed back for a third pass at ~260 m (max uncertainty ~160 m) near 01:58 UTC on 18 October. Relative speed at the closest points was 0.15–0.9 m/s, walking pace or slower. Slow walk-past, not a fly-by . ICEYE-X36 did not maneuver.
COSMOS 2612 burned away at 12:30 UTC on 18 October, braked on 19 October, and is now holding ~480 km from ICEYE-X36 in the same orbit.
We’ve seen this sequence before. COSMOS 2581, 2582 and 2583 (SSC.62902/62903/62904) have been running it against each other since February 2025: raise, phase, drop to co-altitude, close at under half a meter per second, hold, depart, loiter. Since August 2025 we’ve logged more than 170 sub-km conjunction events within that trio, several down to single-digit meters. Until now, every target had been one of their own. This is the first non-cooperative one.
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COMSPOC will be at #TASTI2026! Join us Nov. 8-11 at ICC Tainan in Taiwan.
We’re pleased to sponsor this year’s Taiwan International Assembly of Space Science, Technology, and Industry.
Visit us at booth W142 to see how precise maneuver detection and characterization are essential to producing actionable insight.
Thank you to @TASA_Taiwan and Tainan City Government for organizing this year’s event.
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See what else we’re up to at TASTI and schedule a meeting with our team ➡️ comspoc.com/events/tasti-202…
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COMSPOC Corp. retweeted
COSMOS 2612 (SSC.68762) walks up to ICEYE-X36 (SSC.59103)
In July we posted on the Cosmos 2609–2614 group. Back then we flagged COSMOS 2612 as the satellite best placed to reach ICEYE-X36. Three months later, it did.
Analysis via COMSPOC SSA.
On 1 October COSMOS 2612 raised its orbit ~47 km. The higher orbit gave it a fast catch-up drift, and it passed ICEYE-X36 at ~55 km on 5 October and again on 12 October. Within about two hours of the second pass it made two retrograde burns (~27 m/s total) and dropped back to ICEYE-X36’s altitude, ~515 km behind it. Between 13 and 16 October seven small burns (~5 m/s total) closed that gap.
By 16 October COSMOS 2612 was in ICEYE-X36’s plane (within 0.003°) and at its altitude. Since the two share a plane, there are no plane crossings to wait for. From 16–18 October they spent ~24 hours within 2 km of each other and ~12 hours within 1 km. First pass was ~220 m (max uncertainty ~490 m) near 14:03 UTC on 16 October. It then held 2–4 km behind before drawing level on 17 October and settling into a centred safety ellipse around ICEYE-X36, which it held for the rest of the day. Closest pass in our solution was ~60 m (max uncertainty ~950 m) near 14:18 UTC. By late on 17 October it had drifted ~2 km ahead, then trimmed back for a third pass at ~260 m (max uncertainty ~160 m) near 01:58 UTC on 18 October. Relative speed at the closest points was 0.15–0.9 m/s, walking pace or slower. Slow walk-past, not a fly-by . ICEYE-X36 did not maneuver.
COSMOS 2612 burned away at 12:30 UTC on 18 October, braked on 19 October, and is now holding ~480 km from ICEYE-X36 in the same orbit.
We’ve seen this sequence before. COSMOS 2581, 2582 and 2583 (SSC.62902/62903/62904) have been running it against each other since February 2025: raise, phase, drop to co-altitude, close at under half a meter per second, hold, depart, loiter. Since August 2025 we’ve logged more than 170 sub-km conjunction events within that trio, several down to single-digit meters. Until now, every target had been one of their own. This is the first non-cooperative one.
@planet4589
@shell_jim
@IntegrityISR
@ObservableSpace
ICYMI: COMSPOC is featured in “Space Wars,” a @novapbs documentary that premiered earlier this month on Oct. 7 on @PBS.
The documentary examines the escalating military struggle to control space, the threats facing satellites we rely on, and what can be done to protect them. Learn about the technology and strategy of a rapidly developing arms race and hear how experts are wrestling with the implications of this looming conflict.
Watch online ➡️ to.pbs.org/4z1sld9
#NOVAPBS #SpaceWars
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Jim Cooper, COMSPOC’s government relations manager, will attend @NSSASpace's International Security Space Forum 2026, Oct. 20-21 in Arlington, Virginia.
The forum will bring together senior government, military and industry leaders from the U.S. and allied nations to discuss strengthening partnerships, improving interoperability, and addressing evolving security challenges in space.
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Attending the forum? Contact us to arrange a time to meet with Jim: comspoc.com/contact-us#conta…
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