The second enemy Russian satellite in six months burned up in the atmosphere, having not even worked for two months. This was announced by a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Jonathan McDawell, who published a diagram showing that the Russian satellite began to fall almost from the moment of launch..

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He recalled that this is the second satellite of the Russian Federation, which ended in a similar way..

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Recall, according to unofficial information, the satellite must carry out a reconnaissance mission and collect optical data.

Russia launched another military satellite Cosmos-2555 for the Ministry of Defense on April 30 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. However, it became clear almost immediately that something had gone wrong.. He could not keep the orbit and began to approach the Earth.

On the morning of May 18, he finally deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere, failing to complete any orbital maneuvers..