Luch-5Kh No. 3 beside Eutelsat Konnect VHTS
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of Eutelsat SA, 4.5 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Dec 5, 2023
- to Mar 26, 2024
- Closest stated
- 4.5 km
- Jan 15, 2024
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 2.6° 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
- Dec 5, 2023 to Mar 26, 2024
- BesideDec 5, 2023 to Dec 6, 2023
- 2.60 E, 5 Dec 2023 to 26 Mar 2024
- Closest statedJan 15, 2024
- Mehlman and Falco (arXiv, 2025), from Space-Track's elements: 14 to 16 January 2024, the closest approach only 4.5 km
- LeftMar 26, 2024
- move from 26 March to 2 April 2024
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.
| Said on | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 2025 | Analyst | Marco Langbroek, SatTrackCam Leiden, 14 March 2025, the table of stops, and "Dark moves at geosynchronous altitude", 23 April 2024 |