The ignition not scheduled last night of engines manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-15M”, attached to the International Space Station (ISS), was due to a wrong command from Earth, today reported a source in the Russian aerospace industry.
“The operator must give an order to test the ‘Kurs’ module and decoupling systems, and judging by what happened, ordered the ignition engines of the Soyuz, “the expert told Interfax.
He added that the ship, which must return to Earth tomorrow with Russian Anton Shkaplerov, Italian and Samantha Cristoforetti American Terry Virts on board, “responded correctly to the order form”.
The Russian space agency Roscosmos informed the edge early this morning on the ignition unscheduled engine “Soyuz” without clear so far that the official cause of failure.
The morning crew must return to Earth has been almost a month aboard more international platform after several failures occurred in recent months in the program space.
The three astronauts were to return on 14 May, but their mission was extended after the failed launch of the space freighter Progress M-27M, which deviated from its orbit after being launched on 28 April bound for the ISS.
May was a bad month for the Russian aerospace industry, which has spent several years accumulating failures that damage the reputation of an industry that was once pride for Russians.
In addition to the space freighter, Russia lost a communications satellite for Mexican ruling Russian booster rocket “Proton-M”.
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