The search for the fragments of "progress" is discontinued

The search group of Roscosmos stopped the search for fragments of the M-12M progress that fell on Altai. As the head of the group Dmitry Gurov told Interfax , search engines are returning to Moscow. According to Gurov, in the future, the search for fragments of "Progress" will continue during the pre -launch and post -launch events that will take place in the recovered rockets launched in the republic launched in the republic launched from Baikonur. He adjacent to the Choysky, Turchaksky, Chemal, Ongudai and Ulagansky districts of the republic.

The Soyuz-U launch vehicle with a cargo ship Progress M-12M started with Baikonur on August 24. The truck was supposed to deliver more than 2.6 tons of cargo to the ISS. On board the "Progress", in particular, there were about 800 kilograms of highly toxic rocket fuel heptil, intended for the station.

Due to the accident of the motor installation of the third stage of the launch vehicle, the ship was not taken to orbit. The fragments of the third step and truck fell in Altai.

On September 14, for the first time since the start of searching for fragments, a fragment of the fallen "progress" was discovered. It turned out to be a fragment of a container with a diet for astronauts, which was listed in the list of goods of the ship. This fragment was discovered in the basin of the Aba River, which is the right tributary of the Bolshaya Chile River, which flows into the Telepsk lake. The piece was found in the snow in the mountains at an altitude of about 2.1 kilometers on the border of the Turochak and Ulagansky districts.