out-of-control Russian spacecraft should cease to exist on May 8. Its fragments fall to the ground, but now we can not say with certainty exactly where it happens
«Progress M” will descend from orbit on May 8 to approximately 1:23 till 21:55 Moscow time. This statement was made in Roskosmos. See also: Became known date of the next run of “progress” to the ISS
Recall that the cargo ship was into an unplanned orbit after launch on April 28th. Earlier, a group of Russian scientists announced that the “Progress” have probably exploded in the sky over South Africa. This assumption was based on the video from the telescope-robot global Russian network “wizard.” Roskosmos is no comment.
Before this Joint Space Operations Centre US Strategic Command reported that the tentative district falling wreckage is located near the Pacific coast of the United States. Later it was reported that, according to updated figures supposedly US space surveillance systems, “Progress M” may fall to Earth in the Indian Ocean region.
Predicting where fall “Progress”, now it is impossible, he said in an interview with Business FM Member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky, Yuri Karash.
Yuri Karash
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics Tsiolkovsky
As the Russian Space Agency said in a statement, “Progress” will burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere, and Only a few small pieces of structural elements can reach Earth.
The launch vehicle “Soyuz” from the truck “Progress” was launched on April 28. He was supposed to deliver to the ISS fuel, oxygen, equipment and food. After separation of the third stage of the ship turned into an unplanned orbit. Establish control with “progress” has failed. The ship began to uncontrolled descent of orbit.
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