Calamity cargo capsule DOOMED: Space station pod in fireball re-entry Roscosmos has written off the Progress supply capsule that was supposed to deliver tons of cargo to the International Space Station. The Russian space agency said the out-of-control craft will burn up within days as it falls back to Earth. Youtube Video Igor Komarov, head of Roscosmos, told a press conference on Wednesday …
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I thought that the problem was that they couldn't communicate with the capsule, so couldn't send it any commands. So...how does that explain "Russian engineers are trying to aim the Progress cargo pod so that any fragments of the spacecraft that don’t burn up will fall over water,"
Great. So instead of one trackable piece flying at 16000mph on a known trajectory that will burn up in about 10 days, there will be thousands of smaller, mostly untrackable pieces flying at 16000mph on unknown trajectories that may stay up there for years.
Nice plan.
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Progress M27M sounds like such a dull name. How about "Damocles" or "Hubris" ?
Then again, the Russkies have warned all the countries under the potential final orbit of this thing right? Would hate for it to nearly start WWIII like that Norwegian weather rocket because it coincided with a bad solar storm that messed up the telemetry from the satellites.
> It is expected to break up in the atmosphere in the next ten days.
Nice pass over southern England and several western European nations on the morning of 12th May, if it makes it that far. And perigee is at the northern extension of the orbit, too, according to Ben (above). Faites vos jeux, messieurs et madames.
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