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  • December 12, 2022
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The Russian satellite “Kosmos-2560”, launched in October of this year, entered the Earth’s atmosphere on December 10, without operating for two months. As Ukrinform reports, this was reported

The Russian satellite “Kosmos-2560”, launched in October of this year, entered the Earth’s atmosphere on December 10, without operating for two months.

As Ukrinform reports, this was reported by renowned scientist Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge. Twitter.

“The Russian army launched the Kosmos-2560 satellite into space in October and returned to Earth’s atmosphere via Guam on 10 December at 04:54 (Kiev time). It failed to orbit like the previous satellite in this series,” he wrote.

Interfax states that on October 16, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Angara-1.2 light launch vehicle launched the Kosmos-2560 satellite into orbit and that the device was included in the catalog of space objects.

As Ukrinform reported, in May, journalist and founder of the russianspaceweb portal Anatoly Zak said that the secret Russian military satellite “Kosmos-2555”, launched in April to monitor Ukraine, is not working and may burn in the atmosphere in the near future. .

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Source: Ukrinform

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