A recent resupply mission to the iss has been deemed a total loss.
Russian flight controllers have given up attempting to salvage a Progress cargo ship loaded with 3 tons of supplies and equipment intended for the International Space Station.
The Progress M-27M/59P spacecraft lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan at 3:09 a.m. EDT Tuesday and continued to operate normally.
however soon after booster separation from the booster’s upper stage and
deployment of the craft’s two solar panels, communications and control of the
craft ceased. Rendezvous antennas deployment or propulsion system
pressurization could not be confirmed.
It was at this time that rendezvous was canceled with a decision to let the
supply craft fall back into the atmosphere.
NASA is hoping that Russian
controllers will be able to regain enough control to bring the craft in for a
water impact as to not endanger people and structures on land.
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