Luch-5Kh No. 3 beside Thor 7
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of Telenor, 5 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Jul 1, 2024
- to Sep 18, 2024
- Closest stated
- 5 km
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 0.5° W
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
- Jul 1, 2024 to Sep 18, 2024
- BesideJul 1, 2024
- Arrived July 1 at 0.54 W
- Closest stated
- about 84 km from Thor 7 on 6 to 7 July and closing; CSIS: may have come as close as 5 km in July 2024
- LeftSep 16, 2024 to Sep 18, 2024
- manoeuvre on 16 September 2024 around 22 UTC, complete 18 September
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.