The first launch after the accident “Progress” will be held July 3 – Kommersant

                             
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The first accident after the April launch of a space truck “Progress” to the ISS is scheduled for July 3, reported the press service of the Russian Federal Space Agency. “The State Commission approved the amended schedule of launches to the International Space Station and manned transport cargo ship” Progress “and” Union “before the end of 2015″, – said in a statement.

Carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” with transporters “Progress M-27M” launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome platform N31 April 28 at 10:09 MSK. It was assumed that six hours after the start of the ship moored to the ISS, bringing six crew members of the expedition 43/44 more than 2.5 tons of cargo: food, fuel, oxygen and equipment for scientific experiments. However, because of the emergency situation, he turned into an unplanned orbit, and already on May 8 was burned up in the atmosphere. Financial losses from a failed start-up is estimated at 2.6 billion rubles.

For more information about the investigation of the causes of the accident “Progress”, read the article “b”, “From” Progress “will suffer all ».