Today , April 29 (19:29)
Serious failure and end the mission unmanned Progress 59 spacecraft. Information experts of the Russian space agency confirmed their partners at NASA who write on the blog that the planned docking of the Progress vessel to the International Space Station has been canceled.
Earlier, the head of Roskosmos agency, Igor Komarov, said that the ship does not have communication and mooring will not be possible. This was confirmed from the deck station astronaut Scott Kelly. “We learned from Russian and US flight control centers that this Progress arrive to us,” – he said.
Contact Progress was interrupted shortly after its takeoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday morning . The Russians “blind” tried to send a command to restore connectivity, but to no avail. For now, the Russians plans are not specified; most likely ship just burned up in Earth’s atmosphere.
The Progress was carrying supplies for the International Space Station crew, but failure is not dangerous mission astronauts have food, oxygen, water and fuel for a few months.
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