The ship Progress transported to Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 26 , photo:
After take-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan morning, Progressmiał reach the International Space Station for six hours. But along the way he had a failure; communication system did not work with the Earth and Russian experts unsuccessfully trying to connect to it.
If you have made contact, it eventually starts to decrease flight Progress and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere.
In the media are now served different dates as to when the ship would burn or possibly fall to the ground.
The ship is in the hold nearly three tons of supplies for the crew on the International Space Station. However, they are not urgently needed, so even if the Progress will be written off, according to NASA astronauts at the station this far will not be affected.
The US space agency NASA says that on board the ship Progress does not have anything like that what would now indispensable to the ISS and the same crew. On the ISS are now the Americans Terry Virts and Scott Kelly, the Russians Anton Szkaplerow, Mikhail Kornienko Gennady Padalka and Samantha Italian woman Cristoforetti. According to NASA, the crew has food for more than four months, and fuel for over a year.
Due to problems with Progress scheduled for May 26 launch of a manned spaceship Soyuz to the ISS TMA17M may be postponed – said on Wednesday, a source at Baikonur Baikonur.
Some elements Progresu is the same as the Soyuz, notably with the same approximation and mooring system called “Course” – explained TASS correspondent.
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