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Date: May 8, 2015 at 9:58:58 PM CDT
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Russian government probe blames loss of space cargo vehicle on rocket failure

 

May 07, 14:45 UTC+3
The inquiry has arrived at the conclusion that the loss of the Progress craft was in no way related to the vehicle itself

 

MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. The government probe looking into the likely causes behind the loss of the cargo spacecraft Progress M-27M believes that the mishaps occurred in the Soyuz-2.1a rocket, a source in the space rocket industry has said.

"The inquiry has arrived at the conclusion that the loss of the Progress craft was in no way related to the vehicle itself, but occurred inside the carrier rocket," the source said.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos has refrained from comment.

"Nothing can be said at the moment. All information will be available to the media after May 13, when the probe is through with its work," the space agency told TASS.

The Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying a Progress cargo vehicle with 2.5 tonnes of supplies for the ISS blasted off from the Baikonur space site in Kazakhstan on April 28. It soon turned out that the vehicle was in a wrong orbit and not responding to commands from Mission Control. After several attempts at putting it under control specialists had to agree the docking with the ISS was impossible. Earlier, some experts and sources in the industry speculated that the loss of the Progress supply vehicle might have been due to malfunctioning of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket.

 

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'A Joint Economic Space on the Continent': Putin Meets China's Xi

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Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping "achieved a unity of views on a wide range of issues" during their meeting on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Friday that the Eurasian Economic Union and the Silk Road projects will be united.

"The coupling of the EEU with the Silk Road is essentially the way to a joint economic space on the continent," Putin said.

Putin said that Moscow welcomes Chinese companies joining oil and gas exploration on the Russian Arctic and Sakhalin shelf.

"We have achieved a unity of views on a wide range of issues," Xi Jinping said.

Russia and China also have multiple mutual projects including the Moscow-Kazan high-speed railway, heavy-lift cargo helicopters and oil exploration.

Putin and Xi also agreed that they are against attempts to rehabilitate Nazism or militarism, as well as historical falsifications.

Energy Deals

Russia's Gazprom and China's National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed a deal on the "Western Route" of natural gas supplies from Russia to China. The 2,700-kilometer pipeline connects Western Siberia to China's Xinjiang region. In China, the pipeline is expected to eventually connect to China's East-West pipeline. The deal is a legally binding part of a future contract.

Russia's electrical grid company Rosseti and China's State Grid Corporation (SGCC) signed a deal to jointly build electrical grids. The project is expected to require $1 billion of investments per year. China's Development Bank is expected to finance the joint venture project, established by a memorandum of understanding in 2014.

 

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