The cargo ship Progress M-27 , which was launched yesterday to space destined to the International Space Station (ERA) hurtles toward Earth out of control with more than 7 tons mass.
The Control Center Space Flight Russia lost control freighter yesterday, shortly after launch, when placed in the wrong orbit and stopped sending data to Earth.
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 prevents any attempt to maneuver to approach and dock with the ISS.
The Progress M-27M, which has a launch mass of 7000 290 kilograms, carries about 2.5 tons of supplies to the ISS, including fuel, oxygen, food, scientific equipment and gifts for the crew of the station space.
The Progress M cargo ships are not manned Soyuz-based and first used in the late 70s to bring supplies to the Salyut stations.
Its dimensions are 7.23 x 2.1 meters (maximum diameter of 2.72 meters at the base), with a wingspan of 10.7 meters counting solar panels.
Current Progress MM series includes digital systems and is the latest version of this cargo ship.
The first flight of a Progress took place on January 20, 1978.
The August 24, 2011 a Russian freighter carrying supplies to the ISS crashed in Siberia after takeoff, in what marked the first accident of this type of vessels in over thirty years.
The accident occurred shortly after Progress freighters and Soyuz spacecraft to become the only link between the Earth and the ISS, following the retirement of US shuttles.
The accident of 2011 continued the launch failure of the Martian station Phobos-Grunt, in November 2012, that failure was in Earth orbit instead of threading to Mars and was a setback for Russia’s plans to interplanetary exploration.
Previously, Russia had lost communications satellite Express-AM4, plus a military satellite geodetic and three other satellites were launched to complete your navigation system GLONASS, similar to the American GPS.
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