Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Communication with the cargo ship “Progress” restored – RBC

Mission Control Center

Photo: TASS

The fact that the Mission Control Center began receiving telemetry from the “Progress M-27M”, Interfax reported, citing a source in the space industry.

The situation with the “progress” has already commented on presidential press secretary Dmitry Sands. According to him, “an emergency situation with a missile – a new information specialists find out the causes of malfunctions, try to establish the situation” (quoted by Interfax).

There were the first version of what happened: “Progress” has not come to an estimated orbit due to incorrect operation of one stage of the rocket “Soyuz-2.1a,” reports Tass quoted a source in the space industry.

The agency said that there are some problems with the data telemetry. “They are now eliminated specialists Roscosmos,” – said the press service of the department.

Earlier today, a source in the space industry Tass reported that the truck did not open space, two of the five antennas docking system “Kurs”. The agency’s interlocutor said that if the antenna can not be opened, “Progress” can be docked to the ISS in manual mode.

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