NASA has classified data on a space object over Moscow

NASA has closed access to information about the 2025 US6 object in the base of close approaches to the Earth after a flight of a bolide was spotted over Moscow. This was reported in the Laboratory of Solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to experts, on the morning of October 27, information about 2025 US6 was publicly available. According to calculations, an object about two meters in size was supposed to fly over the Earth on October 28 at a distance of 150 thousand km. The deletion of data in the Russian Academy of Sciences is associated with the appearance of a bright object of unknown origin over Moscow.

The academy noted that under the index 2025 US6 in the NASA catalog could not be an asteroid, but a Chinese satellite DRO-B. The launch of the device into lunar orbit in 2024 ended in failure, and the satellite was on an unstable trajectory. According to the information available to astronomers, in March 2025 it was transferred to a retrograde orbit around the Earth — from east to west, which coincides with the direction of movement of the observed car.

Earlier, experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that the nature of the flying object is unclear — the estimated speed of movement indicates a version of an asteroid, but fragmentation during a fall and a long visibility time indicates the artificial nature of the object.

If the latter assumption is confirmed, the object may very likely turn out to be a Chinese satellite DRO-B, the RAS said.