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An out-of-control Russian rocket has fallen back to Earth after being trapped in orbit for nine days.
The Angara A-5 heavy carrier rocket launched on December 27 from Plesetsk spaceport carrying a dummy payload and was set to reach an orbit 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface, but a failure in firing of the upper stage left it in low Earth orbit.
At around 5:30pm ET, the 18th Space Control Squadron ‘confirmed the reentry of the IPM 3/PERSEY (#50505, 2021-133A) at 13:08 PDT [4:08pm ET] on 5 Jan, 2022, over the Pacific Ocean,’ the agency shared in a tweet.
The rocket stage traveled 4.7 miles per second as it reentered the atmosphere, Holger Krag, the head of the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, said earlier Wednesday, as reported on by CNN.
An out-of-control Russian rocket has fallen back to Earth after being trapped in orbit for nine days
There is no indication of damages or injuries from the out-of-control rocket, which ended its journey in a favorable scenario - splashing down in the ocean.
The modern Angara A-5 rocket is crucial to Russia's ambition to send advanced spy and weapons navigation satellites into orbit in
