MOSCOW, April 29. According to experts the wreckage space truck “Progress M-27M”, which has already started a spontaneous decayed, fall to the ground during the period from 7 to 11 May, informed “Interfax” in the space industry.
“Expected the fall of the debris on the ground – from 7 to 11 May, “- said the spokesman.
It is confirmed that the Mission Control Center will no longer attempt to take control of the cargo spaceship. “A decision was made greater attempts to repeat,” – the source said.
The source said that the experts of the Russian space monitoring system will track the downward movement of “progress” in continuous operation. They will be able to predict the exact time and place of the fall in a few hours prior to the entry of debris into the atmosphere.
Earlier, it was reported that the US Air Force Space Center based on “Vandenberg” in California found 44 fragments in orbit near the ship “Progress M-27M”. However, in the center at the time they were unable to confirm whether the fragments belong directly to “progress” or third stage of the rocket.
On the basis of this information, the academician of the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. Tsiolkovsky, Yuri Karash expressed “Interfax” the assumption that in such a “Progress” will last a very short time. “He’s already falling to Earth. Most likely, he just exploded,” – said the academician.
“So he became a conglomeration of 40 and more debris, need to get on it was put very serious purely physical effects – either inside or outside. If inside, it means that it exploded. And if outside, it means that he entered the dense layers of the atmosphere and disintegrates due to the effects of thermal and dynamic loads on it during the air friction ” – the expert said.
Commercial vehicle “Progress M-27M” launched on Tuesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome by a carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a.” The ship “Progress” has not come to the calculated orbit due to incorrect operation of one of the stages of the rocket “Soyuz -2.1a.” At the moment, the question of the possibility of joining “truck” and ISS is not worth it. Experts are trying to provide a controlled and safe reduction of the ship from orbit.
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