According to the Director General of Roscosmos, first you need to find out what burned down, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation
MOSCOW, October 22. /tass/. Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin suggested finding out which device burned down in the sky over the United States, only after that to judge the work of the state corporation.
"You will first figure out what has fallen there, and then judge our work. All Roscosmos spacecraft are working fine," Rogozin wrote on Facebook in response to a user comment in which he said that spotters had told about the satellite launched from Plesetsk on September 9.
Earlier, some media with reference to the American Meteor Society reported that the Russian satellite Cosmos-2551, launched on September 9 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry, on Wednesday descended from orbit and burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere over the northeast of the United States and southeast of Canada.
As follows from the data of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the Kosmos-2551 spacecraft descended from orbit and burned up in the atmosphere on October 20.
