The Progress spacecraft collapsed in the sky over Tuva

Continuation. A possible cause of the fall has been named.

The Progress cargo ship, which launched on December 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, was lost at an altitude of 190 kilometers above the territory of Tuva. This was reported by Roscosmos.

“Most of the fragments burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere,” the report says.

Information about the causes of the accident is not yet available. According to an Interfax source at the cosmodrome, “during the passage through the atmosphere, the ship disintegrated into one and a half to two dozen parts,” fragments of the ship fell on the territory of Tuva between the cities of Gorno-Altaisk and Kyzyl.

Roscosmos emphasized that "the loss of a cargo ship will not affect the normal functioning of the ISS systems and the life of the station crew." According to an Interfax source at the cosmodrome, due to the accident, the launch of the Progress-MS-05 spacecraft, scheduled for February 2017, may be postponed to an earlier date.

• The Progress-MS04 cargo spacecraft launched on December 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. There were more than two tons of cargo on board - fuel, water, food, medicines, scientific equipment.
• Shortly after the Mission Control Center announced the separation of the ship from the third stage of the launch vehicle, Roscosmos announced that Progress had stopped transmitting telemetry. Subsequently, the sources of the leading news agencies reported about the alleged fall of the ship on the territory of Tuva.