The US military announced a new date for the fall of Progress to Earth

The Progress-M-27M cargo ship will leave orbit, presumably on May 8, according to the Joint Space Operations Center of the US Strategic Command.

According to published data, the Progress spacecraft will enter the dense layers of the atmosphere and cease to exist around May 8.

This will happen on the 167 th revolution of the ship around the Earth. The estimated area of ​​the fall of the wreckage of the ship is located at the coordinates of 35 degrees north latitude and 113 degrees west longitude: near the US Pacific coast.

Earlier, Roscosmos announced its forecast for Progress’s deorbit. According to him, this will happen between May 5 and May 7. The exact location of the possible fall of the ship's wreckage, which did not burn in the dense layers of the atmosphere, according to representatives of Roscosmos, can be confidently named no earlier than a day or two before.

Representatives of the Russian Outer Space Control System (Troops of the East Kazakhstan Oblast) have not yet published their forecasts.

The Soyuz-2.1a rocket, developed and produced by the Samara Progress Rocket and Space Center, with the Progress M-27M cargo ship launched from Baikonur on April 28. At the moment the ship separated from the third stage of the rocket, the Russian Mission Control Center stopped receiving telemetry information. Despite attempts made to take control of the ship, this was not possible. The spacecraft began a random and uncontrolled descent from an orbit of approximately 270 km (at apogee) and 190 km (at perigee).