The Russian spacecraft Progress M-27M, which attempted to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), faces fiery death on Friday:
A Russian spacecraft that has been out of control since launching last week will fall back to Earth and burn up on Friday, scientists say. The unmanned cargo ship was launched from Kazakhstan last Tuesday, but contact was lost with it soon afterwards. The spacecraft, carrying three tonnes of equipment, will disintegrate as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
The craft was spotted by the ISS days ago. This was the 150th launch of a Progress craft.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 08 2015, @02:40AM
That craft poses a hazard to the world! We should shoot it down in flames! Oh - wait . . . it's shooting itself down in flames. Never mind.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @02:45AM
Why? It's not full of Muslims.
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Friday May 08 2015, @04:41AM
We should shoot it down in flames! Oh - wait . . . it's shooting itself down in flames.
Why wait? Be like the Chinese and demonstrate that you can blow up dying satellites. With enough space junk, you can protect space from evil space terrorists.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base