The spacecraft “Progress” will descend from orbit on May 8 – Kommersant

                             
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Cargo spacecraft “Progress M-27M” will descend from orbit on May 8 with roughly 1:23 to 21:55 MSK, said the representative of the Russian Space Agency. “Cargo ship” Progress M-27M “, the launch of which was carried out on April 28 cease to exist 8 May 2015 from 1:23 to approximately 21:55 MSK. One day before the estimated time the Roskosmos report more precise information on the timing and possible habitat falling pieces of “progress”, “- said” RIA Novosti “representative of the Russian Space Agency. He added that the ship fully burn in the dense layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, only a few small fragments will reach the surface of the planet.

abnormal situation with the spacecraft “Progress M-27M” occurred the morning of 28 April: a truck after the launch from Baikonur for unclear reasons, was launched into an unplanned orbit, and was unable to dock with the ISS. Federal Space Agency has decided to reduce from orbit spacecraft and flood, as a continuation of the flight is not possible. The ship began to arbitrary and uncontrolled drop from an orbital altitude of about 270 km (apogee) and 190 km (perigee).

Details of the state of emergency with the spacecraft “Progress M -27M “read the material” b “” With a deep sense of rotation ».