Russian Progress spacecraft suffers another failure

Posted on 6 Dec 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

An unmanned Russian Progress resupply spacecraft suffered a failure minutes after launch last week.

Russian spacecraft have suffered a number of failures in recent years. Image courtesy of Nasa Johnson The spacecraft encountered a problem during its third stage burn causing ground controllers to lose telemetry. Russian space agency Roscosmos later confirmed that the Progress spacecraft had failed to reach orbit. “According to preliminary information,…

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