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Search for site of Progress cargo craft collapse to resume in Altai.
GORNO-ALTAISK, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - Search for a possible site
of collapse of the Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft, which might have
fallen someplace in the Altai Mountains August 24minutes after takeoff
from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, resumes in Russia's
constituent Republic of Altai later Tuesday.
It was suspended September 5 due to a non-flying weather. The
postponement was prolonged, as the decision-making officials of the
Russian Space Agency /Roscosmos/ were expected to decide on whether to
continue the search or to call it off altogether.
A decision to resume it was taken at the end of last week, a source on
the Roscosmos search group told Itar-Tass.
The efforts to identify the spot where the space vehicle collapsed
will continue in the same area as previously. It embraces the Choya,
Turachak, Ulagan, Chemal, and Ongudai districts.
All of the latter adjoin the zone officially allotted by the regional
authorities for the coming down of burned-out stages of carrier rockets
launched from Baikonur.
The helicopter-based search group spent 26 hours in the air trying to
identify the fragments or traces of the cargo craft but it did not find
any.
This offers a backup to an explanation suggesting that fragments of
the Progress did not reach the ground, as they had fully burned in the
upper layers of the atmosphere.
The regional branch of Russia's consumer rights watchdog agency,
Rospotrebnadzor, said Wednesday the testing of 57 samples of water and
soil from the Choya district showed an absence of any traces of heptyl --
a highly toxic rocket fuel an 800-kg consignment of which the Progress was
expected to deliver to the International Space Station.
It also said no one has reported to hospitals in the Choya and four
neighboring districts with symptoms of acute toxic poisoning.
At the same time, 300 or so measurements of radiation background
showed that the dosages of gamma radiation corresponded to the natural
background parameters.
No manmade radio nuclides have been found in the 25 samples of
vegetation from forests and private kitchen gardens.
In this connection, officials have decided to wind up the laboratory
testing for the presence of heptyl.
All in all, the Progress M-12M cargo craft was carrying 2.6 tons of
cargoes to the ISS resident crew.
of collapse of the Progress M-12M cargo spacecraft, which might have
fallen someplace in the Altai Mountains August 24minutes after takeoff
from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, resumes in Russia's
constituent Republic of Altai later Tuesday.
It was suspended September 5 due to a non-flying weather. The
postponement was prolonged, as the decision-making officials of the
Russian Space Agency /Roscosmos/ were expected to decide on whether to
continue the search or to call it off altogether.
A decision to resume it was taken at the end of last week, a source on
the Roscosmos search group told Itar-Tass.
The efforts to identify the spot where the space vehicle collapsed
will continue in the same area as previously. It embraces the Choya,
Turachak, Ulagan, Chemal, and Ongudai districts.
All of the latter adjoin the zone officially allotted by the regional
authorities for the coming down of burned-out stages of carrier rockets
launched from Baikonur.
The helicopter-based search group spent 26 hours in the air trying to
identify the fragments or traces of the cargo craft but it did not find
any.
This offers a backup to an explanation suggesting that fragments of
the Progress did not reach the ground, as they had fully burned in the
upper layers of the atmosphere.
The regional branch of Russia's consumer rights watchdog agency,
Rospotrebnadzor, said Wednesday the testing of 57 samples of water and
soil from the Choya district showed an absence of any traces of heptyl --
a highly toxic rocket fuel an 800-kg consignment of which the Progress was
expected to deliver to the International Space Station.
It also said no one has reported to hospitals in the Choya and four
neighboring districts with symptoms of acute toxic poisoning.
At the same time, 300 or so measurements of radiation background
showed that the dosages of gamma radiation corresponded to the natural
background parameters.
No manmade radio nuclides have been found in the 25 samples of
vegetation from forests and private kitchen gardens.
In this connection, officials have decided to wind up the laboratory
testing for the presence of heptyl.
All in all, the Progress M-12M cargo craft was carrying 2.6 tons of
cargoes to the ISS resident crew.
