The search for "Progress" in the Altai Mountains suspended until Tuesday

Gorno-Altaisk, September 19 – RIA Novosti, Elena Kozlova. Experts Space Agency to set aside one day search for fragments of space truck "Progress", crashed in the Altai Mountains in late August, to define a new region for further searches, outlined on Monday, RIA Novosti boss section of the main regions of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Dmitry Gurov fall. "It was decided, in fact in real time in our search will not be undertaken, they are suspended until tomorrow (before Tuesday). In real time, experts Moscow regard the effects of all previous searches and determine the new region to conduct search activities there ", – stated Gurov. On Saturday and Sunday looked for category search part falling "Progress" in Chelushmanskoy Ulagansky Valley region of the Altai Republic. Contrary to the hopes of search engines, experts have found only fragments of the old start-up and no new fragment. Launch vehicle "Soyuz-U" with a space truck "Progress M-12M" began on 24 August from the Baikonur cosmodrome. During the flight the rocket at the site of the third step of 325 seconds of non-place of the propulsion system, which led to its crash shut down. The wreckage of the truck space, not burned in the dense atmosphere is likely to hit in the Altai Mountains. Gurov presented earlier, the actual environment in the region in the south-western tip of Lake Teletskoye border Turochakskyi Ulagansky and regions north of the village Balykchy, was found burnt piece of cable and a piece of aluminum with the volume of palm with the words "diets." Experts RSC "Energia" approved device finds "progress." Gurov also read the opinion, in fact the more solid parts of the "Progress" had the opportunity to continue "unless the actual engine," koy not so easy to be found in the context of obstruction of the taiga in those places where, as expected, he has to lie down.