Telecommunication American satellite Galaxy 11 partially crashed in space. Reported by the Institute of Applied Mathematics. MV Keldysh (IMP) RAS, reports TASS.
It is recorded that this satellite was launched into orbit in 1999.
According to the institute, civilian optical instruments have detected and are tracking several small parts of the device that pose a potential threat to satellites currently in stable orbit.
previously in the USA declaration About the explosion in orbit of the Russian upper stage, which in 2007 put three GLONASS satellites into orbit.
In April of this year, it became known that the spent second stage of the Soviet launch vehicle Kosmos-3M and the inoperative US meteorological satellite DMSP. avoided collision In the space.