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[newsdock]

Failed Russian spacecraft falls from orbit, burns up

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - An unmanned Russian spaceship loitering in orbit after a failed cargo run to the International Space Station plunged into Earth's atmosphere on Thursday, the Russian space agency reported. The capsule, loaded with more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the station crew, fell from orbit at 10:04 p.m. EDT (0204 GMT), the Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a statement. At the time, the Progress-59 spacecraft was flying over the central Pacific Ocean, the statement said. Most of the spacecraft was expected to burn up during its high-speed descent through the atmosphere, but small pieces of the structure could have survived and splashed down in the ocean. http://dlvr.it/9lXZsC

[newsdock]

Russian Spacecraft Spinning Out of Control in Orbit, with Salvage Bid Underway

The Russian space agency Roscosmos is scrambling to regain control of a robotic Progress 59 cargo ship that appears to have suffered a serious malfunction shortly after launching into orbit early today (April 28). Russian flight controllers abandoned plans to attempt to dock the cargo ship with the International Space Station on Thursday (April 30), NASA spokesman Rob Navias said in a NASA TV update. The problems began shortly after Progress 59 launched into space atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. "Almost immediately after spacecraft separation, a series of telemetry problems were detected with the Progress 59," Navias said during a televised broadcast from NASA's Mission Control center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. http://dlvr.it/9b10mr

[spacealerts]

Launch Alert: Soyuz / Progress 54P

Rocket:                       Soyuz

Primary Payload:      Progress 54P

Launch Site:              Baikonur Kosmodrome

Date:                           Wednesday, 23/7/2014

Launch Window:    1744 EDT

[spaceexp]

Russia Will Launch Space Freighter on Schedule – Roscosmos