[FPSPACE] New EORSAT soon?

[Phillip Clark]

With today's retirement of Cosmos 2405 (as it dropped perigee to hasten orbital decay), maybe we should be looking out for a new EORSAT in the next 2-3 months?   Probably too much to expect that a replacement will be launched within the next week or two.

There weren't many Tsyklon-M launchers remaining a few years ago, so I wonder how soon the supply will run out and what the replacement launch vehicle will be if the programme continues.   The Dnepr perhaps??

In the meantime, there is now the wait to see whether Cosmos 2405 will fragment before it decays from orbit.

Phillip Clark

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