He did not work for two months: the military satellite of the Russian Federation came off the atmosphere and burned

The launch of the spacecraft took place on October 16, it could be intelligence as a previous satellite "Cosmos-2555". It also burned in the atmosphere. The Russian Military Satellite "Space-2560" less than two months after launch came off the atmosphere and burned. The scientist Harvard-Smithson Center of Astrophysics in Cambridge Jonathan Makdel told about it on Twitter. He noted that the previous Russian satellite in this series was also unable to rise into orbit.

"The Russian military satellite" Space-2560 ", launched in October, returned to the atmosphere on December 10 above Guam. As well as the previous satellite of this series, he did not conduct any operations to be laid into orbit," the scientist wrote. Jonathan Makdoll believes that the lack of change of orbit for these two missions was conceived, but it surprised him a little. On October 16, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the light rocket launcher "Angara 1.

2" successfully launched a satellite "Cosmos-2560" in the target orbit. It was launched by the combat calculations of the Space Troops of the CCS from the Russian test cosmodrome Plesetsk. "A stable telemetry is installed and maintained with the ship, its onboard systems operate in full -time mode," Roscosmos said. There are no precise data about the goals that space-2560 was to fulfill. According to everydayastronaut. com, it was a satellite for Optical Intelligence of EMCU-3.

This could explain the atmosphere of secrecy that accompanied the launch. On May 19, the US Air and Space Defense command said that the Secretary Satellite of the Russian Federation "Cosmos-2555" burned in the atmosphere. It was launched on April 29, and it was applied to the letter Z - a symbol of the full -scale war of the Russian Federation with Ukraine.