Russia Progress MS-04: launch failure

[Dr Mordrid]

From TASS. RD-0110 engine failure?

Progress MS is pretty much the cargo version of Soyuz MS, minus the human stuff and with fluid and propellant transfer tanks. I'm hoping this doesnt bleed over to Soyuz MS. C'mon CCtCap....

It's too late to remanifest Japan's HTV-6, which launches December 9, with needed items lost on Progress MS-04. Sounds like a serious remanifesting of SpaceX Dragon CRS-10 will need to be done, which appears to be targeting January.

Edit: Reports of a large explosion over the Tuva region of Russia, north of Mongolia, with falling debris.

It's dead, Jim.

http://tass.ru/kosmos/3833015

A source in the space industry told Tass that the ship, probably, went into an unplanned orbit, and will not be able to fly to the International Space Station.

"Given that the engines of the third stage of the carrier rocket worked (for too short a) time, the ship is likely to have fallen in the area of ​​China or the Pacific" - a spokesman said. According to him, an emergency situation has arisen before the ship was separated from the rocket. "If 150 seconds before the separation occurs such that it is difficult to expect something else. Rather, it is lost." Said the source.

"Perhaps the ship and separated ... but eventually began to decline, and burned up in the atmosphere", - he added. The interviewee said that an emergency situation has occurred in third-stage engine RD-0110 (produced by the) Voronezh Chemical Automatics Design Bureau (KBKhA). "Telemetry was lost 383 seconds of this phase of the engine of the third stage RD-0110," said the source.

According to him, the rocket "Soyuz-U" to start the next "progress" in February, can be replaced by other media.

About the ship

The ship "Progress MS" has three compartments: commercial (for placement of dry cargo and water), the instrument-aggregate and refueling components compartment (for the delivery of fuel to the station). Length - 7.2 m, maximum diameter - 2.72 m, starting weight -. About 7.3 m can take a payload of around 2.6 tonnes.

Docking Station is fully automated, in case of emergency situations, manual docking with the help of teleoperator control mode. After the flight program reduces the ship out of orbit and will cease to exist in the Pacific Ocean - unnavigable its southern part, near Christmas Island
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[Dr Mordrid]

RIA via Google Translate. Second stage engine problem, and not the first time. The gas generator produces hot exhaust gases which drive the engine turbopumps, which pump the liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene into the engine.

https://ria.ru/science/20161202/1482673207.html

Launched to the ISS ship "Progress-MC-04" crashed late Thursday at an altitude of 190 kilometers above the deserted area in Tuva, most of the fragments vehicle burned in the atmosphere. The incident occurred while the engine of the third stage of the carrier rocket.

Earlier it was reported that the ship's wreckage fell into the 60-70 kilometers west of the city of Kyzyl in the Tuva on casualties or damage were reported.

"Most likely, according to the results of the investigation state commission once again be forced to admit the revealed fact defective engine assembly FH-0110, and bench simulation, which will be conducted after analysis of available telemetry will show what kind of propulsion system component was made with violations," - he said the agency.

Fragments of "Progress" in Tuva will be looking [for debris with] drones

"Probably would follow some personnel decisions, and all ready engines, including already installed on the booster rockets of type" Union "need to be removed, to deliver on the company, re-test, to eliminate possible defects in the assembly, which will lead to the next scheduled transfer starts, "right", - he added.

The source said that before the end of the emergency commission any premature to draw final conclusions.

The developer of the RD-0110 is the Voronezh Chemical Automatics Design Bureau.

Roscosmos told about the details of the crash truck "Progress"

A similar accident with the launch vehicle "Soyuz-U", which led to a [crash of] "Progress M-12M", took place August 24, 2011. Unburned elements of the third stage and the ship fell into the sparsely populated mountainous area of ​​the Altai Republic.

Already on August 29 the cause of abnormal operation of the engine RD-0110 third stage of the rocket it was announced: a violation of the conditions of the [s]gasifier[/s] [gas generator] operation. According to the findings of the commission, to the state of emergency has resulted in a decrease in fuel consumption due to clogging tract of its submission. Then manufacturing defect recognized [as] random.