Russia's Progress cargo spacecraft burns up over Pacific

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Daily Telegraph

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 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 $30 million 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.


Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11591247/Russias-Progress-cargo-spacecraft-burns-up-over-Pacific.html

[msongs]

1. no pieces landed near my place. was probably daylight and hard to see nt

[freshwest]

2. There was that other flop and now this. Looks like the galactic quarantine is still in effect, LOL!

[cosmicone]

3. Sarah Palin saw it from her back porch. You betcha! n/t

[MattSh]

4. The odds always favored that...

it would end up in an ocean somewhere.

The Pacific covers a larger portion of the earth's surface than all land masses combined.