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According to the Roskosmosu “Progress” will burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere; the Earth’s surface can reach only some small fragments. – The ship will cease to exist on May 8, 2015. Orientation between the hours. 1.23 and 21.55 Moscow time (hr. 00.23-20.55 in Poland) – Roskosmos said.

Details of where to fall – on Thursday

For detailed information about how and at what time the region could fall to Earth wreckage, the Russian space agency shall, on Thursday.

“Progress” was launched April 28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Six hours later, he had moor to the International Space Station (ISS). However, inexplicably, he found himself on a higher orbit than planned.

The ship was delivered to the ISS more than 2.5 tonnes of cargo – fuel, water and food. The US space agency NASA estimated that this charge is not essential to the operation of the station, the crew has food stocks for four months, and fuel for over a year.

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