SPACE BALLS

Progress cargo spaceship reportedly falls in eastern Russia

The Russian cargo spaceship Progress M-12M has reportedly crashed to Earth in eastern Russia after it failed to reach its target orbit after a launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It was the first such failure of a Russian cargo rocket in the last 30 years. The Progress vessel was to deliver 3.5 tonnes of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), including water, food, oxygen, fuel.
On August 18 the “Express” satellite was lost after it had been launched aboard a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket from Baikonur.