Luch beside ATHENA-FIDUS
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of National Space Research Center, as its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- Oct 20, 2017
- no source states the end
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 37.8° E
The one that moved
Luch
Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, RU
40258 · 2014-058A · launched Sep 27, 2014
The one it came up to
ATHENA-FIDUS
National Space Research Center, F
39509 · 2014-006B · launched Feb 6, 2014
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- from Oct 20, 2017
- Closest statedOct 20, 2017
- passed 37.8 degrees (the Athena-Fidus location) on 20 October 2017 on its way to 38.2 E
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2018 | Analyst | Jonathan McDowell, "Luch and Athena-FIDUS", planet4589.org, 7 September 2018 |