Progressive paralysis

On Wednesday night, the flight control center made two unsuccessful attempts to establish a connection with the M-27M progress cargo ship. This is reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the Central Department Store.

"On board" Progress "several teams were transferred to stabilize its position and reduce rotation around its own axis. Now there is an analysis of the data. According to preliminary information, the tasks have not been solved," said the representative of the Tsupa.

If in the near future it is not possible to withdraw the ship from the regime of uncontrolled rotation, it is unlikely that it will be possible to shake it to the ISS even in manual mode, the RIA Novosti source in the space industry believes .

"To be honest, only a miracle can save the ship. There is no telemetry. Since it is still not possible to withdraw a space truck from the" Twin "mode and stabilize it, the maneuver on manual or television operation becomes too dangerous: you can destroy the crew and station. This risk is unlikely to go: there is a high responsibility, we are talking about the life of people. Therefore, the most likely is the option in which the ship will gradually reduce theore His flight and then simply burn out in the dense layers of the atmosphere of the Earth, ”he said.

The inconspicment of "progress" on the ISS will not affect its work, they note in NASA. There are no critical goods on the ship. According to NASA, the Russian and American ISS segments continue to work in normal mode and have stocks that are enough even after the arrival of the next cargo ship. On June 19, the start of the ISS of the American cargo ship Dragon is planned, which should deliver several tons of cargo to the station.

It was reported that among the goods that the device was supposed to be delivered to the international space station, there is a copy of the Banner of Victory. It was assumed that against the backdrop of this banner, astronauts would congratulate Russians on the 70th anniversary of Victory. Symbolic "victorious" posters were also glued to the Soyuz-2.1A launch vehicle.

However, on Wednesday, the Roscosmos press service said that a copy of the banner was taken to the ISS earlier.

"The Banner of Victory is located at the International Space Station. It was delivered on March 27, 2015 by the Soyuz TMA -16M with the crew as part of the commander, the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Gennady Padalka, the sides - Mikhail Kornienko (Roskosmos) and Scott Kelly (NASA)," the report said.

On Tuesday, the Progress M-27M cargo spacecraft started from Baikonur. He was supposed to be spent on the ISS six hours after the launch. However, the shipdid not reach the calculated orbit due to the incorrect operation of one of the stages of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket. Specialists of the Flight Management Center could not get telemetry information from the board of "progress".

In addition, the ship did not open two of the five antennas of the course system designed for automatic docking with the International Space Station. It was also found that "progress" quickly rotates around its axis.