Moscow, 19 mar ( EFE).- Russia sink into the Pacific Ocean the communications satellite Express-AM4, which was released seven months ago and whose mission, which consisted, inter alia, to ensure the presidential and governmental communication failed.
Said today a source of Russian aerospace agency Interfax, an area of the North Pacific will be closed to air traffic and shipping for one period of two hours both the 25 March 26 for security reasons as.
The Express-AM4 was released on August 18, 2011 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, but the control center lost the connection with the device, which was found hours later in an unforeseen orbit.
The apparatus has remained outside of the planned orbit during all this time, which prevented to fulfil its mission and reduced its flight autonomy, recognized Denis Pivniuk, financial director of the company “Communication space” (Kosmicheskaya Sviaz).
Satellite, fruit of the collaboration between the European company Astrium and the Russian Jrúnichev Design Centre, was built in the image and likeness of the Eurostar E3000 platform.
The objective of the mission was to ensure coverage satellite of Russian territory and the postsoviética Commonwealth of independent States, in addition to communications of the Kremlin and the Russian Government.
The Russian side has commissioned a similar device, Express-AM4R, which will be put into orbit in the first half of 2014 to Austrium.
Russia suffered several sound failures in its programme of releases, such as the first accident in more than thirty years of one of their Progress freighters, which crashed in Siberia last August in 2011 and 2010.
If outside little, lost a satellite geodetic military once the device entered not circular and elliptical orbit as planned, in addition to three others that had launched to complete its GLONASS global positioning system.EFE
