The MCC plans to reduce the “Progress” from orbit – Kommersant

                             
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Experts Mission Control Center (MCC) will try to take control of the cargo ship “Progress” for further information safe from orbit , said a source in the space industry.

«The question of the possibility of joining” truck “and ISS is not worth it. The main thing – to provide his more or less controlled and safe de-orbiting. If in the next few hours the problem is not resolved, the ship will begin a natural decayed, due to the deceleration in the upper atmosphere. It is estimated that unmanaged decayed ship can happen in early May, “- said to” Interfax “spokesman, noting that the specialists the task to restore the orientation of the spacecraft and to stop its rotation around its axis.

Earlier “Kommersant” reported that docked launched April 28 space truck “Progress M-27M” with the ISS on Thursday postponed indefinitely.

Rocket ” Union “with the spacecraft” Progress M-27M “launched from Baikonur at 10:09 Moscow time. After undocking from the rocket ship in the MCC said that the land does not enter the telemetry. Source Agency in the space industry said that the “progress” is not revealed two antennas docking system “Kurs”, the ship did not come into the proper orbit due to a malfunction in one of the stages of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a».

Read more about the launch of spacecraft “Progress”, read the article “b”, “cargo ship went into free swimming».