Russia called a Soviet satellite will fall to the southern hemisphere

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World Science report [tech.]: Russia spacecraft control expert Marco martirosov 12, at the Moscow ground flight control center said that one of my old Soviet era Launch Intelsat will fall to the Earth between the country looks best in the southern hemisphere.

According to Interfax reported that Marco martirosov said that the satellite is part of the Soviet period of "lightning" series of communication satellites, it will be the role of gravity in the southern hemisphere country looks best companies entered the Earth's atmosphere over the ocean, but also very difficult to forecast the satellites into Earth's atmosphere in specific time.

As is customary, the Earth's oceans has always been in the southern hemisphere countries spacecraft crashes of the specified range. Marco martirosov said, the satellites currently in orbit is elliptical, its perigee distance ground hundreds of kilometres, the expert also could not determine the satellite in the atmosphere of residual fragments after combustion.

He explained that due to the vagaries of the Earth's atmospheric conditions and the other a series of reasons, aerospace experts so far can't fall on satellite nature for long-term accurate forecasting, Russian space monitoring agencies are close observation will fall for this satellite.

Marco martirosov believes that the satellite will not produce a threat to the international space station, "space station orbit once an exception, we will take steps to change the height of its operation."