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Is this seat taken? Cosmos 2612 meets ICEYE-X36

Two-panel cartoon meme in the empty-bus format. Left, captioned ME: ALONE IN ALL OF LOW EARTH ORBIT: a small smiling boxy satellite labeled ICEYE-X36 floats alone in empty starry space above Earth, a red shipping container stenciled exeindex.com drifting far off. Right, captioned COSMOS 2612: a smug grey cylindrical satellite labeled COSMOS 2612 is pressed right against the nervous, sweating ICEYE-X36 and asks IS THIS SEAT TAKEN? @exeindex in the corner.
EXE Index original cartoon (@exeindex) · EXE Index original

Satire / Meme. Russia's Cosmos 2612 went from more than 200 miles away to roughly three miles from the US-owned ICEYE-X36 radar satellite in a day, LeoLabs says. A CSIS fellow called it "bumper-to-bumper." Spot the egg

What
Is this seat taken? Cosmos 2612 meets ICEYE-X36
Where
Space
When
2026-10-17
Source
Axios
Credit
EXE Index original cartoon (@exeindex)
License
EXE Index original
Details
Space, Russia (RU) / United States (US)

metaRussia (RU) / United States (US)Space

Sources and credit

  1. Axios
  2. Dispatch: the full record

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