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posted by janrinok on Friday December 02 2016, @11:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-it-a-bird?-is-it-a-plane? dept.

Russian space agency Roscosmos has confirmed that Progress cargo spacecraft burned up it the atmosphere and its debris fell in south Siberia's Tuva Republic.

"As a result of an abnormal situation, the loss of the Progress cargo ship took place at an altitude of 190 kilometers [some 118 miles] above an unpopulated mountainous area in Tuva; most of the fragments burned up in the [Earth's] atmosphere, according to preliminary data," Roscosmos press service said.

Earlier in the day, a source told RIA Novosti that the debris of the Progress cargo spacecraft supposedly fell in Russia's Republic of Tuva in south Siberia.

Roscosmos previously reported that Progress lost telemetry six minutes after launch on its mission to deliver several tons of consumables to the crew on the ISS. They stress that the accident "will not affect the routine operations of the ISS".

Sorry, guys, looks like it's borscht again tonight.


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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @07:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 03 2016, @07:31AM (#436442)

    when he was struck by debris from another failed Russian spacecraft while he was a tourist in Tuva.

    I read that on Facebook.

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  • (Score: 1) by fritsd on Saturday December 03 2016, @12:31PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Saturday December 03 2016, @12:31PM (#436511) Journal

    What were his last words? AAAAhaaahaaaAAAhh-yat-kha [wikipedia.org]?