MOSCOW Control Center Space Flight (CCVE) Russian lost control of the Progress M-27M, a space freighter unmanned going to supply the International Space Station (ISS), and now fall to Earth, according to a Russian official.
“It has begun to fall,” said the official who declined to be identified. He said the Russian flight controllers will try to return twice the connection with the freighter but with little chance of success.
“It’s impossible to know when will fall exactly on Earth, depends on many factors. But the fall will result in uncontrolled conditions, “said
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The freighter will” in uncontrolled flight at least a week, after which it will enter the atmosphere and burn, “said for his part an expert of the Russian aerospace consulted by the agency RIA Novosti.
In this case, “the remains they do not burn as it passes through the atmosphere it will fall anywhere between latitude 52 north and latitude 52 south,” he said.
The CCVE lost control of the spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) at 7:10 (GMT) yesterday, after it was placed in the wrong orbit and stop sending to Earth telemetry data.
After several failed attempts to regain control of the Progress, the Russian technicians found that the freighter at high speed spinning on its axis, which precludes any attempt to maneuver to approach and engage the ISS.
The Progress M-27M, which carries about 2.5 tons of supplies to the ISS, was attached to the orbital outpost six hours after takeoff.
In her store it carries fuel, oxygen, food, scientific equipment and gifts for the crew of the ISS. Also it carries a replica of the Soviet Red Army flag hoisted in Berlin in 1945 and was to serve the Russian astronauts on the ISS to commemorate the May 9, marking the Allied victory against the Nazis in World War II .
After his loss, estimated to cost up to $ 90 million, the next freighter could be launched to the space station before the August 8 in figure originally planned flights of the Russian space agency.
NASA confirmed meanwhile that the freighter “does not carry any essential supplies for running the American part of the ISS.”
“The Russian and American segments of the station continue to function normally and have enough for a lot later than June, when will the next freighter reserves, “said yesterday the US space agency, referring to the Dragon, made by US company SpaceX, which will take off on 19 June.
The current crew of the orbital platform integrate Anton Shkaplerov Russian Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko, Samantha Cristoforetti Italian and American Scott Kelly and Terry Virts.
Each year, three or four Progress cargo ships leave for the ISS to carry material. After his mission crash and burn in the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean.
In 2011, a Soyuz carrier rocket carrying a similar cargo crashed shortly after takeoff in the Altai region in Asia Central.
The International Space Station is a project involving 16 countries and has an estimated cost of $ 100,000 million.
The platform, with a crew of way continuously since 2000, it has a mass of about 450 tons and orbits at a distance of between 335 and 460 kilometers above the Earth, at a speed of 27,000 kilometers per hour.
AFP and Agencies EFE .
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