Iillustration of U.S military satellite DMSP Block 5D2 (Credit: US Air Force)

This story from the MIT Technology Review takes spy vs. spy action to a whole new level.

Although the evidence is still circumstantial, Thomas Roberts, a former aerospace security fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), thinks that Kosmos 2542 is purposely shadowing USA 245 to spy on it. “Things do move around in low Earth orbit, but to expend your valuable propellant in this way to perfectly position yourself to view another satellite like this to me is just beyond the pale,” he says. ”It’s not a coincidence.” Todd Harrison, the head of the Aerospace Security Proj

Source: A Russian satellite is probably stalking a US spy satellite in orbit – MIT Technology Review