Luch beside EUTELSAT 8 WEST B
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of Eutelsat SA, 90 km away at the nearest its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- February 2021
- to April 2021
- Closest stated
- 90 km
- Mar 29, 2021
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 8.0° W
The one that moved
Luch
Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii, RU
40258 · 2014-058A · launched Sep 27, 2014
What the sources state
Every day and distance here is the sources’ own, to the precision they state.
- When
- February 2021 to April 2021
- BesideFeb 17, 2021
- arrived 17 February 2021
- Closest statedMar 29, 2021
- about 90 km on 29 March 2021 when imaged
- LeftMarch 2021 to April 2021
- CSIS: in March 2021 Luch made a significant maneuver back eastward
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2021 | Analyst | Marco Langbroek, "LUCH (Olymp-K), an eavesdropping SIGINT snooping around commercial comsats", SatTrackCam Leiden, 6 April 2021 |