Russian espionage in orbit: Luch Olymp retired, and then?
The Russian spy satellite Luch Olymp, launched in 2014 and famous for spying on several sensitive French and Western satellites, was placed at the end of October 2025 in cemetery orbit, several hundred kilometers above the geostationary orbit (36,000 km above sea level), according to information provided to the Point by the Toulouse start-up Look Up, co-founded by General Michel Friedling*, former commander of the French space forces...