Until late yesterday, at press time, the Russian space freighter Progress continued in free fall toward Earth, even though the Russian space agency Roskosmos had anticipated that the wreckage disintegrated soil would play 23 minutes before (Argentina time).
The unmanned, with 2.5 tons of cargo, was orbiting the planet in free fall since Tuesday last week, when the Russian operators lost control while traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) to supply it with input.
“The satellite will leave its orbit between 1.13 and 4.51 am Moscow time (19.13 and 22.51 hours of yesterday Argentina ), “Roskosmos said in a statement. “The ship is completely disintegrate when crossing the layers of the atmosphere and only a few small fragments will reach the Earth”, she said. Until then, the exact spot where the ship fall was unknown, but almost all such spacecraft disintegrate in the atmosphere or fall into the oceans, which cover most of the Earth’s surface. AFP reported from Roskosmos believed that the decline of Progress M-27M spacecraft to Earth showed no signs that would differ from that of a ship under control.
Yesterday, the freighter passed through the Argentina sky.
Every year, Russia launches three to four space freighters to send supplies to the ISS. The Progress, which are used for 35 years, is one of the great prides of the Russian aerospace industry with an almost immaculate record: hitherto only been one accident, in August 2011, caused by a failure of the carrier rocket . The loss of this cargo will cost about 500 million euros, but the good news is that not endanger the crew of the ISS, which has reserves for several months.
On Tuesday last week just hours after it took off, the Progress freighter, without crew on board and take six hours to reach destination, stopped responding to Russian engineers Control Center Space Flight Russia in charge of the mission launched from the Baikonur (Kazakhstan).
The ship was in the wrong orbit and stopped sending data to the control room for all his antennas were not deployed. Several websites devoted to tracking space junk projected path freighter in its fall nearly 8 km per second when it was less than 150 km high from the ground floor.
Already He formed a commission of inquiry to determine the circumstances of this incident, which appears to have occurred during the separation between the spacecraft and the rocket, as defined by the vice president of Roskosmos, Alexander Ivanov.
According to the Space site. com, small pieces that fall on Earth were highly unlikely to fall on someone. The odds were 1 in 10,000, considering that there are over 7000 million people in the world, the chance was too remote. .
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