American analysts said that the Russian satellite of Cosmos-2553, related to the program to create nuclear anti-satellite weapons, began to “rotate uncontrollably”, which may indicate its failure. It can also become an obstacle to Moscow when creating space nuclear weapons, Reuters reports .
According to the agency, the radar of Leolabs, which is engaged in monitoring the space space, recorded the “strange movements” of the satellite in November last year. In December, the company "with a high degree of confidence" stated that the satellite is "neutralized".
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“This observation convincingly indicates that the satellite is no longer functioning,” the center of strategic and international research in Washington said.
In addition, in May 2024, Slingshot Aerospace, whose telescopes track the actions of the satellite from the moment of its launch on February 5, 2022, noted that "the brightness of the object has become a variable." At the same time, according to the latest data from the company, now the satellite has stabilized.
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The US space command said that he knew about changing the height of the Space-2553 flight, but refused to provide an additional assessment of its current state.
About the launch of the satellite and that nuclear weapons can be tested on it last spring. Then American officials said that the satellite itself does not carry nuclear weapons, but it could be a platform for testing it. According to Reuters, Cosmos 2553 was in a relatively isolated orbit at an altitude of about two thousand kilometers above the ground in the high -cosmic radiation zone, which is usually avoided by communication and observation of the planet.
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