US air force: Debris exploded in the tank space

the Wreckage of a tank, the Russian upper stage “Fregat”, which exploded in orbit in may, flew thousands of kilometers. Such data published on the website space-track.org owned by the U.S. air force.

According to the website, in the catalogue of space objects included 36 of the 65 the wreckage of the tank “Frigate”, located on orbits with a minimum altitude of 336 to 672 km and the maximum from 2574 5101 km to the tank before the explosion was moving in an orbit with a minimum altitude of 422 km and the maximum is 3606 km away.

Imagine if the debris threat to operating satellites, the website said.

we will Remind, earlier it became known that on may 8 in orbit exploded toroidal reset the unit tanks of the upper stage “Fregat-SB”, which during injection of the satellite into orbit separated after the consumption of fuel. The destroyed unit was used in July 2011 for delivery to the space Observatory “Spektr-R”.

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