MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The source said that the Kanopus-ST and its emergency Volga rocket “are completely useless because of serious damage of the braking [system] that failed while entering the upper layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.”
“An impulse for the deorbiting was given by Russian specialists on December 6 when it became clear that the satellite’s unit separation did not occur. After the impulse was given, the object changed its orbital course drastically and began sliding along the atmosphere,” the source told RIA Novosti.
It has not been specified when and where the unburned remnants of the satellite will strike Earth after entering the atmosphere.
