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Daily brief · Saturday, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

24 Oct: 4 military satellites changed orbit, 26 closing on others, 1 launch, 19 clusters over conflict zones ahead.

Countries busier than usual

0

A country's last 7 days against its own normal (the 90 days before, once there are 28): at least twice its usual week and well outside chance.

No country ran well above its normal this week.

Military satellites that changed orbit

4

Confirmed by the next public orbit update. 27 other satellites (not military) also changed orbit.

Military and unclassified satellites closing on others

26

In nearly the same orbit as another object, and getting closer.

and 14 more

Geostationary relocations

0

Working satellites 36,000 km up that left their slot or stopped at a new one, from their daily positions. One stopping beside another country's satellite is named.

None moved or arrived on this day.

Clusters over conflict zones in the next 24 hours

19

4 or more of one country's working military satellites, from different launches, over places where fighting was recorded this year, at once. Passes are fixed by orbits days ahead, so a cluster is usually a coincidence.

and 13 more

Military satellites whose public tracking stopped

0

Working satellites whose public orbit updates stopped, or that left the public catalogue.

None on this day.

Possible breakups

0

Three or more new pieces catalogued from a launch over a month old, in a week (Space-Track satellite catalogue).

None on this day.

Newly catalogued objects

4

Objects that appeared in the public catalogue for the first time. One from an earlier launch can mean a satellite released something.

Launches

1

On the day, then the next 24 hours.

  • SatNet LEO Group 28 · Long March 8A
    25 Oct, 02:03 UTC · Due · Launch Successful · China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation · Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Re-entries

4
  • STARLINK-1525 predicted to re-enter
    25 Oct, 11:15 UTC · Prediction · US; uncertain by hours
  • STARLINK-36255 predicted to re-enter
    25 Oct, 15:31 UTC · Prediction · US; uncertain by hours
  • STARLINK-2187 predicted to re-enter
    25 Oct, 19:57 UTC · Prediction · US; uncertain by hours
  • STARLINK-1454 predicted to re-enter
    25 Oct, 21:44 UTC · Prediction · US; uncertain by hours

Built 25 Oct, 00:30 UTC from the event log: what overhead24 detected that day, in its own words. Sources: Space-Track.org (USSPACECOM) (orbit data and re-entries); GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat) (owners and military class, CC BY 4.0); Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs) (launches); UCDP (where fighting was recorded, CC BY 4.0). Worked out from public orbit data, accurate to a few kilometres and less the older the data. Not for collision avoidance, navigation or targeting. Satellites pass over every country: being overhead says nothing about what a satellite is doing.

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