Thursday, May 7, 2015

The Americans have specified the crash site “Progress M-27M” – BBC News

The US space surveillance systems (SKKP) increases the frequency of issuing predictions about the likely time and place of the termination of the existence of an emergency ballistic cargo spacecraft “Progress M-27M”, Tass reports.

According to SKPP truck can enter the dense layers of the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean in the 3 thousand kilometers to the east of Indonesia on May 8. Possible area of ​​incidence of the spacecraft is between 51.6 degrees south latitude and 51.6 degrees north latitude. According to the Russian Federal Space Agency, the truck will cease to exist from approximately 1:23 to 21:55 Moscow time on May 8.

Carrier rocket “Soyuz-2″ 1a phase of modernization development and production of the Samara Space Rocket Center “Progress “with the cargo ship” Progress M-27M “launched from Baikonur on April 28. After separation of the spacecraft from the third stage carrier he was an unplanned orbit. Attempts to take the ship to control or to no avail. He started uncontrolled descent of orbit.

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