🛰️ Right now, a Russian satellite is flying in close formation with a Western commercial-ish radar satellite, and makes another close pass in the next ~10 minutes. COSMOS 2612 has matched orbits with ICEYE-X36, a Finnish-built commercial-ish radar (SAR) satellite. They're circling the planet together under half a kilometer apart, making a close pass almost every orbit (~95 min), the next one around 01:38 UTC (18 Oct), every one at essentially zero relative velocity. Being upfront: at these separations (sub-km, down to tens of meters), the exact distance is below the precision of public tracking, so treat specific metre figures as indicative. What ISN'T ambiguous is the orbit match and the ~0 m/s closing. This is deliberate, controlled formation flying, the behaviour associated with close-up inspection, not a chance conjunction (collision). And it's targeted. Cosmos 2612 is the ONLY one of a six-satellite cluster (Cosmos 2609–2614) to have maneuvered: it raised its orbit in the public data ~47 km, drifted into phase with X36, then dropped back to settle alongside it. The other five never moved.