Luch-5Kh No. 3 beside EUTELSAT 3B
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of Eutelsat SA, 16 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Oct 4, 2023
- to Dec 5, 2023
- Closest stated
- 16 km
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 3.2° E
The one that moved
Luch-5Kh No. 3
Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, RU
55841 · 2023-031 · launched Mar 12, 2023
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- Oct 4, 2023 to Dec 5, 2023
- BesideOct 4, 2023 to Oct 5, 2023
- As of October 5, 2023 at 15:00 ET, Luch (Olymp) 2 appears to be parking near ~3.2 East, within ~60 km of another GEO spacecraft
- Closest stated
- closest approach about 16 km
- LeftDec 4, 2023 to Dec 5, 2023
- 7 December update: has left its previous slot and settled near a different satellite
The detector was not yet running: it reads low Earth orbit since April 2026 and the geostationary belt since October 2026.
Reported elsewhere
Who else said these two were together, earliest first.