Luch-5Kh No. 3 beside INTELSAT 10-02
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of Intelsat Ltd, US headquarters, 1 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 2 public reports other than Orbinauts name these two.
From the public record
- From
- Sep 18, 2024
- to Feb 7, 2025
- Closest stated
- 1 km
- Jan 29, 2025
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 0.9° W
The one that moved
Luch-5Kh No. 3
Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, RU
55841 · 2023-031 · launched Mar 12, 2023
The one it came up to
INTELSAT 10-02
Intelsat Ltd, US headquarters, United States
28358 · 2004-022A · launched Jun 16, 2004
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- Sep 18, 2024 to Feb 7, 2025
- BesideSep 18, 2024
- 0.92 W, 18 Sep 2024 to 7 Feb 2025
- Closest statedJan 29, 2025
- 28 January maneuvers placed Intelsat 1002 onto a trajectory which resulted in the <1 km POCA with Luch/Olymp 2 on 29 January
- LeftFeb 6, 2025 to Feb 7, 2025
- Kratos: eastward manoeuvre initiated 6 February 2025 about 19:00 UTC, 3.1 degrees a day
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2025 | Tracker | Integrity ISR, Integrity Flash issue 115, 24 February 2025 |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Analyst | Marco Langbroek, SatTrackCam Leiden, 14 March 2025, the table of stops |