Kosmos-2535 & Kosmos-2536

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1309225961070751745

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Kosmos-2535 and Kosmos-2536 have now been within 1 km of each other for a month (and are likely docked). Latest TLEs might suggest they are now separated again, but too early to really be sure - might just be noise in the data

Re: Kosmos 2535/2536/2543 operations from C. Bassa via Seesat-l on 2020-09-19 (SeeSat-L Sep-20 )

From observations earlier in the year, when the separation between both objects was much larger, only object 44421/19039A was visible, and object 44424/19039D was too faint to be detected with an ZWO ASI1600MM and a 85mm F/1.4 lens.

 

[Flyaway]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1317161112392126464

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After 1.5 months in the close vicinity of Kosmos-2535 (and maybe docked to it) Kosmos-2536 separated from it on Oct 12 and has now retreated to 20 km from it.