LeoLabs highlights on-orbit maneuvers – SpaceNews

COLORADO SPRINGS – A LeoLabs maneuver-detection dashboard displayed at the 38^th Space Symposium tracked the location of about 30 Chinese, Iranian and Russian spacecraft in low-Earth orbit.

The dashboard showed, for example, an experimental Chinese spaceplane that had lowered its altitude in the last two weeks from about 600 kilometers to about 300 kilometers.

“We believe this spacecraft is getting ready to reenter,” Kohei Fujimoto, director of LeoLabs Japan, told SpaceNews.

Detecting Maneuvers

Whenever one of the Chinese, Iranian or Russian spacecraft maneuvered…