Russian satellite, which worked own "age"de-orbited. All fragments of the satellite "Kosmos-1151" burned in the dense layers of the atmosphere.

Adept national air-space defense troops, Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin reports that the Russian satellite was successfully completed his work and went to rest. "Experts of the Main center of space exploration situation troops EKR, who persistent powercopy control and analysis of the state apparatus "Kosmos-1151", approved the fact of its decay in 19:18 in the capital's time 4 August over Antarctica," said the Colonel.

Already received information from the analytical center. According to the analysis of information, specialized electronic, electro-optical, laser-optical means of the Russian system of space monitoring of the Soviet satellite is no longer in orbit, tells ITAR-TASS.

The Russian satellite Kosmos-1151" was launched on January 23, 1980 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome with the help of a carrier rocket "Cyclone-3". Active lifetime of this spacecraft in orbit was 6 months.

Recall that previously completed its own space life of the Russian satellite Kosmos-903". This space object is spent components of the system "Eye", designed for warning about missile napadeniyu dense layers of the atmosphere apparatus collapsed. Small fragments of the satellite fell from orbit above the Eastern-Siberian region, burned down in the dense layers of the atmosphere.
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