Yesterday, the cargo spacecraft entered the atmosphere of the Earth.

One of the telescopes-robots Russian Global network WIZARD caught exploding cargo "Progress M27M" in the sky over South Africa reported by on the project website.

In a small video clip, published MASTER seen the glow of sunset and rapidly moving clouds over South Africa. Then, in the gap between the clouds appears a cargo ship (just to the left of the vertical bar) and quickly hides behind the clouds. This telescope was installed in 350 km from Cape town, Observatory, Sutherland. The event took place may 5 at 20.05 Minsk time.

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the picture below shows a trace of the "Progress" made by the MASTER telescope II. It is possible to notice a change in the brightness, as "Progress" rotates very quickly (exposure 5 sec).



we will Remind that on April 28 on a spaceship "Progress M-27M" was that a critical situation. Due to output a carrier truck into an unplanned orbit the unit began an uncontrolled spin and was unable to dock to the ISS. On Board the ship was 2.5 tons of cargo, including fuel, supplies, food and scientific equipment.

Later the experts of Roscosmos failed to perform corrective maneuver the ship and stop its uncontrolled rotation, then the truck began to lose orbit.