Laupäeval kosmosesse lennutatud Vene sõjaline Maa kaugseiresatelliit
Kanopus-ST ei jõudnud kavandatud orbiidile, teatas USA kaitseministeerium täna.
Pentagonile alluva Ühendriikide kosmoseseiresüsteemi teatel hävib Kanopus-ST (Kosmos-2511) teisipäeval.
USA andmetel jõuab satelliit atmosfääri tihedatesse kihtidesse paigas, mille koordinaadid on 71,5 kraadi põhjalaiust ja 81,5 kraadi idapikkust, umbes Jenissei jõe suudme kandis. Selle ärapõlemata tükid võivad kukkuda maale sealt lõuna pool.
Praegu on kosmoses kolm objekti, mis jõudsid sinna pärast startimist Plessetski kosmodroomilt 5. detsembril kanderaketiga Sojuz-2.1B.
Orbiidiletüürimise seade Volga sai rahvusvahelise numbri 2015-071С (NORADi kataloogis. See asub 98,2-kraadise kaldega orbiidil, mille kõrguse apogee (kaugeim punkt) on 655 km, perigee (lähim punkt) 106 km. Viimane näitaja osutab, et see hävib lähipäevil.
NORADi kataloogi kanti samuti satelliidid Kosmos-2511 ja Kosmos-2512.
Vene kaitseministeerium, kelle tellimusel need üles lennutati, keeldus olukorda kommenteerimast.
http://maailm.postimees.ee/3426369/usa- ... eisipaeval
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A Russian satellite reportedly
designed to track enemy submarines and a spacecraft to help calibrate ground-based military radars (miks mul tuju läks paremaks ) lifted off Saturday aboard a modified Soyuz rocket, but one of the payloads apparently failed to deploy from the launcher's upper stage, according to Russian media.
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Russian Ministry of Defense announced that launching of two satellites, Kosmos-2511 and Kosmos-2512, was ended with success.
Mission of two Kosmos satellites was firstly scheduled to February 2015. It was postponed to December 9th, but it seems that everything went more than correct and yesterday, on 17:03 Moscow Time, Satellites were launched. Both Kosmos-2511 and Kosmos-2512 satellites belong to series of Russian Military spacecrafts designed and manufactured under contract with Ministry of Defense.
Kosmos-2511 (also known as Kanopus-ST)
is weather satellite (

) designed and manufactured by NPO VNIIEM. Its main objective is helping in ocean research and weather forecasting. Generally it is imaging satellite equipped with high sensing imaging equipment.
http://www.satprnews.com/2015/12/06/rus ... -on-orbit/