According to a source in the space industry of the country, the Mission Control Center received telemetry data is not enough, reports n-mar.ru.
This is the agency “Interfax” with reference to one of the employees of the cosmodrome .
«It was a blast scattered in different directions from the target orbit THC (transport cargo ship – a comment.” Heathcliff! “) and the third stage (40 kilometers and 20 kilometers above the lower, respectively), creating at the same time several dozen fragments of the third stage. ” The work at the enterprises – the second phase of the normal operation of the state commission, when professionals have a clearer version of what happened. As a result, it was decided to eliminate the cargo ship.
The whole story began on April 28, when it was launched a carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” and ship “Progress M-27M».
The State Commission has presented the preliminary findings on the situation of “progress.” Problems appeared in 526 seconds of flight, since the separation of the ship from the third stage of “Union.” It is also a story that in general the process of launching missiles from a ship passing in the normal mode, but when it came to the separation of the third stage of the rocket, it happened naturally, which led to the present catastrophe.
Extending until May 22 the commission’s work, which was to finish everything by 14 May, may not be the last, he told Tass source familiar with the investigation. The truck was on the short-lived orbit and began to uncontrolled motion. Problems with the truck will not affect the livelihood of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS), but have led to the transfer of the start of a new expedition to the ISS. May 8 at 05:04 Moscow time it burned down over the Pacific Ocean.
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