"Progress" and tradition

The launch from Baikonur to the International Space Station of the Progress-MS04 cargo ship ended in failure. This was officially stated at Roscosmos, reports Interfax.

"According to preliminary information, as a result of an abnormal situation, the loss of TGC occurred at an altitude of about 190 km over the hard -to -reach, unhappy mountainous territory of the Republic of Tuva, and most fragments burned in the dense layers of the atmosphere," the message said.

The ship "Progress MS-04" was supposed to deliver more than two tons of different cargoes to the ISS: fuel in the tanks of the combined motor installation and refueling systems, water and compressed gases, scientific equipment and components for the life support system, as well as food containers, clothing items, medicines and personal hygiene products for crew members. In addition, the ship had New Year's gifts for astronauts.

Technical problems could lead to the accident of "progress". “If an accident occurred, then the cause of the RD -0110 engine, produced in Voronezh or a malfunction of the control system, according to preliminary data, produced at the Kharkov GNPP Kommunar,” a source at the Cosmodrome.

The source noted that on board the station there are enough food reserves and essential items for the crew in order to continue activities until the reserve truck arrives. He added that the “progress-MS05”, the launch of which was planned for February, could be sent to the ISS ahead of schedule.

On April 28, 2015, the ISS was launched to the ISS “Progress M-27M”. The truck was in a short -lived orbit and began an uncontrollable decline. On May 8, at 05:04 of Moscow time, the ship ceased to exist , burned over the Pacific Ocean.

According to the conclusions of the State Commission, the cause of the ship’s accident was the consistent depressurization of the tanks of the oxidizing agent and the fuel third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle. "At the 526.716 seconds of the space of the cosmic missile, an abnormal separation of the third stage of the launch vehicle and the transport cargo ship" Progress "took place. As a result of an emergency separation, the ship turned out to be 40 km higher in orbit with an apogee, and the third step was 20 km below the calculated excretion trajectory," said the head of the luxury of the luxury Igor Igor Komarov.

Due to the accident of the "progress of the M-27M, the launch of the manned ship" Soyuz "to the ISS was postponed for two months and took place in July 2015.