Russian military satellite Cosmos-2560 deorbited and burned out less than two months after launch

A few months ago, the Russian military satellite Kosmos-2555 burned down.

spacecraft, Kosmos 2560, but it was able to hold out a little longer.

What is known

On October 16, Russia sent a satellite into orbit"Cosmos-2560". It was supposed to be used for reconnaissance, but something went wrong. December 10, i.e. less than two months after launch, Cosmos-2560 deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere over Guam. This was reported by Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge.

The Russian military sat Kosmos-2560 launched inOctober, reentered on Dec 10 at 0154 UTC over Guam. Like the previous satellite it the series, it performed no orbit raising burns. pic.twitter.com/ukxSU3PIco

— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) December 11, 2022

Kosmos-2560 is not the first satellite of Russianmilitary, which burned out ahead of schedule. On April 29 this year, the Russians launched the Kosmos-2555 spacecraft. He could not hold out in orbit for even a month. On the morning of May 18, the satellite entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up.