and added a twin of the Luch-5A, the Luch-5V. The three orbital position used by this system was 95° east over the Indian Ocean, 16° west, over the Atlantic Ocean and 167° east over the Pacific Ocean. The positions were assigned to the Luch-5V, Luch-5B and Luch-5A respectively. Luch 5A arrived at Baikonur on November 10, 2011, and was launched on December 11, 2011, along AMOS-5. Luch 5B went through vacuum thermal testing during May 2012 and was launched on November 3, 2012, along Yamal-300K. Luch 5V was launched on April 28, 2014, along KazSat-3. During 2013 a military communication satellite was identified as both Luch and Olymp, and later named Olymp-K, was manifested to fly on the Proton-M. It launched successfully on a Proton-M/Briz-M on September 28, 2014. It is known to be based on the USP platform, to be designed for a 15-year life on GEO, to have a laser communications terminal, to use Hall thrusters and is considered to also have a SIGINT payload. On the 9 October 2015, spacenews.com reported that in April 2015, Olymp-K had moved within of the Intelsat communications spacecraft Intelsat 901 and the nearby Intelsat 7, causing concerns of a safety-of-flight incident. Attempts by Intelsat to contact the Russian satellite's operators were not successful, and no reason for the satellite's movement was given by the Russian government. The move sparked classified meetings within the Department of Defense. The Luch-4 is speculated to have mutated into the Yenisey A1. It will be mostly a demonstration spacecraft for new technologies, particularly large diameter unfurlable antenna reflectors and use of electric propulsion for orbit raising maneuvers. The new Progress-MS and Soyuz-MS will have a Unified Command Telemetry System (UCTS) that will make extensive use of the Luch and GLONASS networks to have real-time telemetry and control of the spacecraft even when not overflying a ground radio station. Criticism On the 7 September 2018, France's Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, claimed that in 2017 a Luch-Olymp spacecraft had crept close to the Athena-Fidus satellite, a French-Italian satellite launched in 2014 and used for secure military communications and the planning of operations. Parly said, "Trying to listen to one’s neighbor is not only unfriendly. It’s called an act of espionage." References Communications satellites in geostationary orbit Military satellites of Russia Mir Russian components of the International Space Station Communications satellites of the Soviet Union Inter-satellite