why the retirement of Luch-Olymp modifications nothing to the Russian risk | EUROtoday
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Lhe Russian spy satellite tv for pc Luch Olymp, launched in 2014 and well-known for having spied on a number of delicate French and Western satellites, was positioned on the finish of October 2025 in cemetery orbit, a number of hundred kilometers above geostationary orbit (36,000 km altitude), in line with info supplied to Point by the Toulouse start-up Look Up, co-founded by General Michel Friedling*, former commander of the French area forces.
Since the top of October, Luch Olymp has remained on this graveyard orbit, which confirms its decommissioning after roughly eleven years of espionage exercise for the advantage of the FSB, the well-known Kremlin intelligence service. A logical choice, because the successors of Luch Olymp have been positioned in orbit and confirmed their operational capabilities…
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