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    Russian space craft failure

    Russian space craft failure

    The unmanned craft had some sort of sensor failure after launch, and it went out of control. Has likely burned up in the atmosphere.

    Video at link.





    Update for April 29: Russia's space agency has confirmed that Progress 59 is falling from space and will burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Read the full story: Doomed Russian Space Station Cargo Ship Will Fall Back to Earth Soon



    The Russian space agency Roscosmos is scrambling to regain control of a robotic Progress 59 cargo ship that appears to have suffered a serious malfunction shortly after launching into orbit early today (April 28).


    Video from the Progress 59 spacecraft showed it in a dizzying spin, with the Earth and sun rapidly coming into and then out of frame. Russian flight controllers abandoned plans to attempt to dock the cargo ship with the International Space Station on Thursday (April 30), NASA spokesman Rob Navias said in a NASA TV update. That docking — originally scheduled for this morning, then pushed to Thursday — is now "indefinitely postponed," Navias said.


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    I knew of this on Tuesday. Watching RT it was on their news. No idea what took American TV so long to report this.

    Video shows the spacecraft was tumbling.

    Apparently it got fairly close to the station but they were unable to connect it.

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