12.09 Russian Aerospace Defense Forces Again Dismiss Satellite Explosion Rumors

MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Aerospace Defense Forces again dismissed US media rumors of a Russian military satellite allegedly exploding above the United States.

The Russian Defense Ministry has persistently denied the rumors, but a spokesman for the US Strategic Command told RIA Novosti earlier in the day that Russian reconnaissance satellite Kosmos-2495 reentered the atmosphere and crashed last week.

“These statements are yet another attempt to find out the location of the space object after the United States has lost track of it,” Aerospace Defense Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said.

He reiterated that all Russian spacecraft function in normal regime and ground control services have steady control over them.

No malfunctions have been reported in the past days, the spokesman said.