Earlier this month Russia lost a
military spy satellite over the United States, though it appears the Russians
did not want to admit this at first. The Kosmos-2495 satellite was launched on May 6, 2014 and burned up on September 3, 2014. The U.S. Strategic Command's Joint Functional Component Command for Space, which tracks space debris through the
Joint Space Operations Center, noted that the satellite "was removed from the US satellite catalog as a decayed object on September 3."
The Russian Defense Ministry originally denied these reports, stating "The Russian satellite group functions normally and is being constantly monitored by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces." First Russia's leaders did not know their tanks were in Ukraine and now they cannot locate their satellites. Who's in charge over there?
