Soviet spy satellite to fall back to Earth

An old Soviet reconnaissance satellite is due to enter and burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere on Saturday while any possible debris is projected to fall in the Pacific Ocean, Russian Aerospace Defense Force have announced. “Analysis indicates that fragments of the Kosmos-1441 satellite will leave the near-Earth orbit on November 8, 2014 over the Pacific Ocean. The final date and site where the fragments may crash may change under the influence of external factors,” spokesman for the Russian Space Command Aleksey Zolotukhin told TASS. Kosmos-1441 is a Soviet military ELINT (Electronic and Signals Intelligence) satellite that was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome back in 1983 onboard a Vostok rocket. More

(Source: RT - Nov 7)