The Russian RS 12/13 satellite, long a popular "easysat" because of it's downlinks on 10 and 2 meters and uplinks on 2 and 15 meters, is off the air and unofficial reports say it may be dead.
According to postings on the AMSAT-BB internet reflector and AC5DK's RS-12/13 Satellite page, Jerry Brown,K5OE, received word from a ham friend in Russia that the satellite had succumbered to last summer's blasts of solar radiation, first losing it's receivers and control circuitry, then the beacon transmitters.

Stressing that his information was unofficial, Oleg, RV3TH, also told Jerry that controlers will try to bring the satellite back to life, but have little hope of success. RS-12/13 was launched in 1991 as a secondary payload aboard COSMOS 2123, a Russian navigation satellite. The last transmission from the satellite were heard on August 20.