Roscosmos confirmed the collapse of the Progress MS-04

The Progress MS-04 cargo ship, which started on December 1 from Baikonur, fell on the territory of Tuva, Roscosmos said .

“According to preliminary information, as a result of an abnormal situation, the loss of TGK 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 report said.

The State Commission analyzes the current emergency. The loss of a cargo ship will not affect the normal functioning of the ISS systems and the life of the crew of the station, added to Roscosmos.

Earlier, the source of RIA Novostispoke about the collapse of the ship, according to his data, the fragments of “progress” fell in the Tuva area.

Later, the RIA Novosti source specified that the fragments of the cargo ship fell 60–70 kilometers west of Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva.

It was reported that problems could have arisen at the separation of the third stage of the launch vehicle, the cause of the accident could be a malfunction of the engine produced in Voronezh, or the control system that is produced at the Kharkov enterprise.

The RNS source estimated the damage as a result of the unsuccessful launch of “progress” of more than 4 billion rubles. VTB Insurance, in which the cargo ship was insured, will decide on the payment of compensation in the amount of about 2.5 billion rubles, a source in the insurance market told TASS.

The Soyuz-U launch vehicle with the Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft started from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on December 1 at 17:52 Moscow time. Progress was supposed to deliver more than 2 tons of cargo to the ISS, including fruits for astronauts for the New Year.

The previous accident of “Progress” occurred in April 2015, the connection with the ship was lost after the start, in early May it burned over the Pacific Ocean.

At the end of November, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the space industry, announced that Russia "escaped from this radiation, offensive accidents and disasters."