After 15 years in orbit, satellite telecommunications Russian military fell safely into the Pacific.

RIA-Novosti reported Tuesday 09.04 1-89 Molniya satellite, weighing 1.6 tons, the combination of satellite telecommunications Russian military forces have buried themselves under the Pacific Ocean on 7.4.

Series of satellites was replaced in 2006 by all kinds of newer satellite line of Meridian.

Before falling back to the atmosphere, satellite orbit Molniya 1-89 located on the ground about 2378 km, according to Russian space officials.

The outcome of the Molniya 1-89 is the common end of a few satellite "zombie", ie no longer works and drifted in orbit, in recent times.

Before that, the devices can be sunk, like its Express-AM4 satellite, Phobos-Grunt spacecraft from Russia, UARS NASA and the German Rosat.