MOSCOW – Russia's military says an old Soviet-built nuclear-powered satellite has partly disintegrated but its fragments do not threaten the international space station or people on Earth.
The military's Space Forces say the decommissioned Cosmos-1818 satellite partially fragmented in July and that the debris posed no danger.
Space Forces chief of staff Gen. Alexander Yakushin said in Wednesday's statement that the satellite's fragments remained on a high orbit far above that of the international space station. Yakushin added that the fragments do not pose any threat of radioactive contamination on Earth.
The Cosmos-1818 was launched into orbit in 1987 on a mission to track ships using a powerful radar scanning the ocean surface
Нет угрозы радиоактивного заражения? А чего же он развалился на части, если он не сходит с орбиты?