The source said a clash between “Progress MC-04″ with the level of its own missiles – View

Crash of the space truck “Progress MC-04″ was triggered by the damage of the propulsion system during the collision of the third stage of the carrier rocket with a cargo spacecraft, said a source at the cosmodrome.

“After separation of the spacecraft from the third stage of the rocket its engine for an unknown reason, was not disconnected and continued to work. In the result the third stage hit the ship and critically damaged its propulsion system,” reports his words “Interfax”.

Earlier in the PCO reported that the accident “Progress” has occurred due to emergency shutdown of the engine third stage rocket “Soyuz-U” 383 seconds of flight. Later in the PCO denied the reports about the cause of the crash of “Progress”.

Earlier, a source at Baikonur said that the Russian space Agency has decided to abandon the rocket “Soyuz-U”; launched from Baikonur with the cargo ship “Progress MC-04″ and a wrecked over Tuva rocket is the penultimate.

we will Remind, on December 1, the cargo spacecraft “Progress MC-04″ with cargo for the International space station (ISS) was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the carrier rocket “Soyuz-U”. 382-th second communication with the ship was lost. It later emerged that the “truck” crashed at a height of 190 km over a remote unpopulated mountainous territory of Tuva and most of the fragments of the device burned in the dense layers of the atmosphere. Local residents saw flashes in the sky in the area of fall of the apparatus.

According to a source in the space industry, the wreckage of “Progress” has fallen 60 km from Kyzyl. The probable fall of “Progress” has sent a group of firefighters of the Ministry. The next after the accident, the day land of the group surveyed about 300 sq km the territory of Tuva, Khakassia and Krasnoyarsk region, but the wreckage of “Progress” not found.

December 3, a local resident found a fragment of “Progress” in the Ulug-Khem district of Tuva. Later, a second chip of “Progress” was found in the yard of a home in Tuva. Specialists of the Russian space Agency believe that the earth could fall no more than 10% of the space truck.

Also published an eyewitness captured video of the wreckage of “Progress”.

the state Commission called priority version of the accident “Soyuz-U” burnout engine of the third stage of the rocket. Also expressed in the other versions, in particular, technical problems in the systems produced by the Kharkiv enterprise.

the Accident similar to the one that occurred in August 2011 at the site of the third stage of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-U”. Then the violation of the conditions of work and reduction of engine parameters and its emergency shutdown caused reduction in fuel consumption in the gasifier due to clogging of the path of its submission.

VZGLYAD reported in detail about the accident of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-U”.