The spacecraft “Progress” burned over the Pacific Ocean – RBC

View of the spaceship “Progress” with the ISS. Archival photo

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On the termination of the existence of the ship “Progress M-27-M” the press service of the Russian Space Agency. According to the Russian Federal Space Agency, entry of the ship into the atmosphere occurred at the turn of the 160-m over the central Pacific Ocean.

As Interfax reported with reference to the representative of the Russian Space Agency, “the ship entered the Earth’s atmosphere and burned.”

The space agency said that after the completion of the State Commission, not later than May 13, will present the results of investigations into the causes of the accident “Progress».

On the eve of Strategic Command US military calculated that the “Progress “enter the dense layers of the atmosphere over the western part of Mongolia. Pentagon predicted that the destruction of the spacecraft will pass over Mongolia, the Trans-Baikal Territory, north-east China, the Amur Region and Khabarovsk Territory. However, the morning of May 8, Interfax referring to the American system of space monitoring reported that unburned fragments of “progress” may fall in the South Pacific, in the 350-1300 km from the coast of Chile.

Booster “Soyuz 2.1a” the ship “Progress” was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the morning on April 28. After separation of the third stage, the truck stopped coming telemetry, with “Progress” has not come to the calculated orbit, the ship did not open two of the five antennas of the docking system. As reported by Interfax, citing a source at Baikonur, the ship carrying the ISS ‘American equipment for the benefit of NASA », as well as medical equipment, 420 liters of drinking water, oxygen, and photographic equipment and cargo needed for life support module” Zvezda “. Costs start “progress” amounted to 2.6 billion rubles., Most of them will be reimbursed by the insurance contract.

Because of the accident “Progress” launch to the ISS manned spacecraft “Soyuz”, scheduled for May 26 it was decided to postpone for 1.5-2 months.

The next transport ship “Progress M-28M” will be launched to the ISS on 6 August. Until that time, to the ISS is to be sent to the US space truck Dragon, the launch of which is scheduled for June 19, and on August 17 to the station planned to fly the Japanese transport ship HTV.