Luch-5Kh No. 3 beside Intelsat IS-39
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of Intelsat S.A., US headquarters, 12 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 2 public reports other than Orbinauts name these two.
From the public record
- From
- Mar 7, 2025
- no source states the end
- Closest stated
- 12 km
- Jul 22, 2025
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 62.0° E
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 IS-39
Intelsat S.A., US headquarters, United States
44476 · 2019-049B · launched Aug 6, 2019
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- from Mar 7, 2025
- BesideMar 7, 2025
- 07-03-2025 onward, 62.02 E, INTELSAT 39
- Closest statedJul 22, 2025
- The pair reached their closest approach of this month on 22 July: ~12 km
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 |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Tracker | COMSPOC, "INTELSAT 39 & LUCH-5X", video, 29 July 2025 |