Luch beside Intelsat IS-39
A satellite of Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii came up beside a satellite of Intelsat S.A., US headquarters, as its sources state.
Reported: 1 public report other than Orbinauts names these two.
From the public record
- From
- January 2022
- to August 2022
- Orbit
- GEO
- geostationary orbit, over 62.0° 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
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
- January 2022 to August 2022
- BesideJan 23, 2022
- JANUARY 23, 2022: Luch maneuvers and lingers near Intelsat 39 for over 170 days
- LeftAugust 2022
- Kratos: a 63,000 km relocation drift in August 2022
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 14, 2023 | Institute | Bingen, Johnson, Young, Raymond, Space Threat Assessment 2023, CSIS, 14 April 2023, timeline |