Space truck “Progress MS-05” sank in the Pacific ocean
Fragments of the space cargo ship “Progress MS-05”, not burned in the atmosphere, fell on Friday, July 21, in non-navigational area of the Pacific ocean on the “spaceship graveyard”. About it RIA Novosti said the representative of the mission control Center.
From ISS the spacecraft ottimali 20:46 GMT 20 Jul, 23:58 GMT its main engine was running on braking. “Progress” entered the dense layers of the atmosphere on July 21 at 0:31 GMT.
“Progress” was launched at last in the history of the rocket “Soyuz-U”. Ship pristykovatsya to the Pirs module of the ISS on 24 February, made up for part of the equipment lost in the accident the previous truck “Progress MC-04”.
The previous flight of “Soyuz-U” in conjunction with “Progress MC-04” held on 1 December 2016, failed.
The most likely cause of the accident Roscosmos said the opening of the tank of the third stage of the carrier due to foreign particles in the oxidizer pump. After that, the last launched missile was replaced by the engine of the third stage.