May 25, 2015

Roscosmos didn’t announced specified data on Progress M-27M cargo vehicle accident on Friday, Commission well need more time, – space agency press office reports.

“Special Interdepartmental commission investigating accident of Proton M-27M  launched from Baikonur spaceport on April 28, 2015, goes on working, final conclusions will be presented later”, – official message says.

Soyuz-2.1a modernized booster with Progress m-28M cargo vehicle was launched from Baikonur spaceport on April 28. Thevehicle separated from the booster’s third stage off-nominally, the vehicle entered unscheduled orbit spinning at that. The docking on the vehicle with the ISS had to be cancelled. All efforts to take control over the vehicle were a failure:  Progress started uncontrolled descent. On May 8, 05.04 progress M-27 ceased to exist above the central region of the Pacific Ocean.

According to the preliminary data already presented by Roscosmos Progress M-27M was lost because oxidizer tank depressurization and further Soyuz-2.1a booster 3rd stage fuel tank  depressurization. It was the commission to find out depressurization cause.

To determine the nature of the cause additional modeling and a series of experiments on the premises of aerospace industries were needed.

More from this category:
May 9, 2013

According to RIA Novosti, in response to a request posted by bloggers in social networks, Russian space officials have agreed to adjust the work of…

full story
June 28, 2024

A battery has been replaced in the Russian segment of the International Space Station. The work was carried out in the functional-cargo block “Zarya” by…

full story
May 7, 2013

SES-6 European communication satellite that is to be launched by Russian Proton-M  rocket-booster and Briz-M upper stage was delivered to Baikonur Cosmodrome where the launch…

full story
April 19, 2013

Russian scientists develop a project on creating protective belt on the orbit of small asteroids that could be used to change the orbit of other…

full story
October 13, 2014

Roscosmos developed deep space and particularly Moon exploration program, – Roscosmos strategic planning office Director Yuri Makarov reported last Friday. “In terms of technologies we…

full story
April 22, 2015

Today, on April 22, the first Russian woman working onboard the ISS and the fourth woman-cosmonaut in the history of Soviet and Russian Cosmonautics Elena…

full story
April 28, 2014

Proton-M booster with Kazakh KazSat-3 communication satellite and Russian Luch satellite was successfully launched from Baikonur spaceport on Monday, – Roscosmos representative reported. The booster…

full story
April 8, 2013

“The construction of launchpad for Angara heavy booster may start in 2015 instead of 2016 as was planned earlier, – Roscosmos Head Vladimir Popovkin stated….

full story