It happened about 1400 kilometers from Earth. What are scientists concerned about?
Old Soviet technology continues to fail even in space. An old Soviet satellite disintegrated in Earth orbit after colliding with space debris.
According to scientists, this happened about 1,400 kilometers from Earth – an old Soviet satellite allegedly disintegrated due to a collision with space debris. About it writes Space.
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“An inactive Soviet satellite launched in 1991 broke up into seven fragments as a result of a collision with space debris. These fragments probably originated from Kosmos-2143 or Kosmos-2145 launched on the same rocket,” — said astrophysicist and space debris expert Jonathan McDowell.
At the same time, researchers are concerned about other Soviet satellites that are still at an altitude of 800 kilometers above the Earth. They can interfere with new satellites.
By the way, as Telegraph wrote earlier, this is not the only Russian operation that went “not according to plan” – Luna-25, which was supposed to land near the South Pole on August 21, collided with the Moon and ceased to exist.
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