Luch

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  • Communications satellite
  • Military
  • LUCH (OLYMP)
  • NORAD 40258
  • 2014-058A
  • Medium Earth orbit

Current orbit

Where Luch is on the world map, with the orbit it is flying
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Orbit began over the Pacific Ocean

Orbit ends over the Pacific Ocean

Past trackNext orbits

In view from you

Nobody watches Luch go over, but a receiver still asks whether it is above the horizon. Say where you are and this card answers.

Your position is rounded to about a kilometre and sent only to the Orbinauts API, to find the pass.

No brightness has been published for Luch, so it is not a naked-eye satellite and no city page carries pass times for it. Nothing here estimates one.

Seeing it

There is nothing to go outside for: it is too faint for the naked eye. What reaches you from it reaches a dish or an antenna, not an eye.

Timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched, on the day GCAT records. Source

  2. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Luch-5V, Feb 21, 2015 to Apr 4, 2015, as public sources state. Its sources

  3. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside INTELSAT 901, Jun 22, 2015 to Sep 25, 2015, as public sources state. Its sources

  4. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside INTELSAT 905, Oct 4, 2015 to Dec 9, 2015, as public sources state. Its sources

  5. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside INTELSAT 10-02, Jan 9, 2016 to Aug 30, 2016, as public sources state. Its sources

  6. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Eutelsat W2A, Sep 10, 2016 to Jul 28, 2017, as public sources state. Its sources

  7. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat New Dawn, Aug 15, 2017 to Oct 18, 2017, as public sources state. Its sources

  8. Rendezvous

    GSSAP vehicle came up beside Luch, from Sep 14, 2017, as public sources state. Its sources

  9. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside ATHENA-FIDUS, from Oct 20, 2017, as public sources state. Its sources

  10. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Paksat 1R, Oct 24, 2017 to Jan 14, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources

  11. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Turksat 4A, Jan 15, 2018 to Feb 6, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources

  12. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Nigcomsat 1R, Feb 7, 2018 to Apr 24, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources

  13. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Al Yah 2, Apr 26, 2018 to Jun 8, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources

  14. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Eutelsat W2M, Jun 7, 2018 to Jul 1, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources

  15. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Turksat 4B, Jul 2, 2018 to Oct 28, 2018, as public sources state. Its sources

  16. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside NSS 12, Oct 28, 2018 to Feb 22, 2019, as public sources state. Its sources

  17. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat IS-33e, Feb 21, 2019 to Jun 29, 2019, as public sources state. Its sources

  18. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside INTELSAT 906, Jun 30, 2019 to Aug 25, 2019, as public sources state. Its sources

  19. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat IS-17, Aug 25, 2019 to Oct 19, 2019, as public sources state. Its sources

  20. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat IS-20, Oct 20, 2019 to Nov 29, 2019, as public sources state. Its sources

  21. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside EUTELSAT 70B, Nov 28, 2019 to Feb 11, 2020, as public sources state. Its sources

  22. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside EUTELSAT 21B, Mar 28, 2020 to Apr 24, 2020, as public sources state. Its sources

  23. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside INTELSAT 10-02, May 11, 2020 to Sep 17, 2020, as public sources state. Its sources

  24. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside EUTELSAT 5WB, Sep 27, 2020 to Oct 23, 2020, as public sources state. Its sources

  25. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside ABS-3A, November 2020 to February 2021, as public sources state. Its sources

  26. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside EUTELSAT 8 WEST B, February 2021 to April 2021, as public sources state. Its sources

  27. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat IS-33e, October 2021 to January 2022, as public sources state. Its sources

  28. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat IS-39, January 2022 to August 2022, as public sources state. Its sources

  29. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat IS-37e, Sep 1, 2022 to Mar 27, 2025, as public sources state. Its sources

  30. Rendezvous

    Luch came up beside Intelsat IS-17, Aug 11, 2025 to Oct 8, 2025, as public sources state. Its sources

Summary

Over the Pacific Ocean LIVE

Where is Luch?

At 4:40:53 PM UTC Luch was over the Pacific Ocean (2.2° N, 120.3° W), 36,109 km up, moving at 3.06 km/s and in sunlight.

What is Luch?

A communications satellite in medium Earth orbit, in space since Sep 27, 2014.

Can I see Luch?

No, not with the naked eye: no brightness has been published for Luch, and nothing here estimates one; the dishes and receivers on the ground use its signals instead.

General

Operator
Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii
State
Russian Federation
Built by
OAO M. Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems
What it is
Communications satellite
Military
Yes: a defence organisation flies it
Launched
Mass
about 1.9 t
Operating
Orbit class
Medium Earth orbit

From GCAT, Jonathan McDowell’s general catalogue, licensed CC BY 4.0: the operator, the state, the manufacturer, what it is for, that a defence organisation flies it, the launch day, the mass, and whether it is operating. The orbit class is read from its current elements.

Latest orbital data

Position received
4:40 PM UTC
Station time (UTC)
4:40 PM UTC
Latitude / longitude
2.2° N, 120.3° W
Altitude
36,109 km
Speed
3.06 km/s (11,027 km/h)
Course
south-west
Light
In sunlight
Inclination
2.3°
Orbital period
1,452.9 minutes
Orbits per day
0.99
This orbit
36,099 to 36,133 km
In shadow
None of this orbit
In view from
Within 7,950 km of the point below it
Elements epoch
Nov 8, 2026, 3:31 AM, 13 hours old
Source
Position from Space-Track orbital elements of Nov 8, 2026, 3:31 AM, 13 hours old.

No operator publishes an ephemeris for Luch, so every position here comes from its orbital elements.

In orbit

Close approaches
No close approach to Luch has been reported publicly in the past thirty days.

From Space-Track’s public conjunction messages; the latest report was issued Nov 8, 2026, 1:11 PM, 3 hours old. Only approaches serious enough to be reported publicly are listed: within three days and, for two bodies near the Earth, closer than a kilometre with a chance of a collision above 1 in 10,000, the level at which NASA moves the ISS.

See every close approach reported in orbit.

Launched with

Luch shares its launch, 2014-058, with 3 other bodies the catalogue lists in orbit.

BodyWhat it is
BREEZE-M R/BRocket body
BREEZE-M DEB (TANK)Debris
LUCH (OLYMP) DEBDebris

Read from the international designators of the US catalogue: the year and the launch number every piece of one launch shares. A body that has come down is no longer listed.

Beside the others

SatelliteTypical altitudeOrbital periodMassIn space since
Luch36,099 to 36,133 km1,453 minutesabout 1.9 t2014
Hispasat 30W-635,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 6.1 t2018
Amazonas Nexus35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.1 t2023
ARSAT-135,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 3 t2014
Astra 1N35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 5.3 t2011
Hotbird 13F35,786 to 35,786 km1,436 minutesabout 4.5 t2022

Data and API

The current elements from Space-Track as an OMM object, epoch Nov 8, 2026, 3:31 AM, 13 hours old.

{
  "OBJECT_NAME": "LUCH (OLYMP)",
  "OBJECT_ID": "2014-058A",
  "EPOCH": "2026-11-08T03:31:25.432032",
  "MEAN_MOTION": 0.99110807,
  "ECCENTRICITY": 0.0003992,
  "INCLINATION": 2.2666,
  "RA_OF_ASC_NODE": 80.7769,
  "ARG_OF_PERICENTER": 168.2346,
  "MEAN_ANOMALY": 93.2513,
  "EPHEMERIS_TYPE": 0,
  "CLASSIFICATION_TYPE": "U",
  "NORAD_CAT_ID": 40258,
  "ELEMENT_SET_NO": 999,
  "REV_AT_EPOCH": 4239,
  "BSTAR": 0,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DOT": 7.9e-7,
  "MEAN_MOTION_DDOT": 0
}