GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: Russia loses new military satellite

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org

02February2011 4:29pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE:  MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti) - Russia has most likely lost a new dual-purpose geodesic satellite after it failed to reach a designated circular orbit 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) above Earth.

The GEO-IK-2 satellite, designed to create a detailed three-dimensional map of the Earth and help the Russian military to locate the precise positions of various targets, was launched Tuesday on board a Rockot carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia.

The spacecraft failed to communicate with Russia's Ground Control at a designated time but was reportedly "discovered" by U.S. space monitoring services, moving along an elliptical orbit whose lowest point brought it to within 330 kilometers (205 miles) of Earth. (read full report)

 

 

 

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