Saturday, May 9, 2015

The US military specified time and place of the fall of the Russian “Progress” – Mirror of the Week

The estimated drop zone the ship is between 51.6 degrees south latitude and 51.6 degrees north latitude.

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“Progress” will fall on May 8

The Russian cargo spacecraft “Progress M-27M” is supposed to can enter the dense layers of the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean 3 thousand kilometers to the east of Indonesia in the middle of the day on Friday, May 8, shows the forecast of US space surveillance systems (SKKP).

The probable fall zone “truck” is between 51.6 degrees south latitude and 51 6 degrees north latitude.

According to the estimates of Roscosmos, “Progress” will cease to exist on May 8 to approximately 1:23 to 21:55 Moscow time.

The rocket “Soyuz -2.1a “Samara Production Space-Rocket Center” Progress “cargo ship with” Progress M-27M “took off from Baikonur on 28 April. At the moment of separation of the ship from the third stage of the rocket mission control center stopped receiving telemetric information. Take a ship under the control of Russian specialists failed , and he began to uncontrollable decrease with an orbital altitude of about 270 km (apogee) and 190 km (perigee).

“Progress M-27M” was supposed to deliver to the ISS a weight of 2.5 tons, including “St. George” ribbons. General the damage caused by his loss will be about 5 billion rubles (about 100 million dollars).

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