MOSCOW. Sept 22 (Interfax) - The Roscosmos state corporation has reported the deorbiting of decommissioned Russian satellite Monitor-E1 early on Tuesday morning.
"According to the Main Information Analysis Center of the Automated Warning System on Hazardous Situations in Outer Space, the Monitor-E1 satellite ended its physical existence at about 3 a.m. Moscow Time on September 22, upon entering dense layers of the atmosphere. The satellite was defunct and classified as space debris," Roscosmos said.
Satellite wreckage fell into the equatorial part of the Atlantic Ocean, at approximately 5 degrees of the northern latitude and 50 degrees of the western longitude, it said.
The Monitor-E1 satellite with a takeoff mass of 750 kilograms was designed to gather remote sensing data for the purposes of ecological monitoring, control over emergencies, prospecting of natural resources, cartography, and economic activity.
It was launched by a Rokot rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on August 26, 2005. The satellite ceased operating in 2011 for technical reasons.