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Urgent: Unmanned supply ship burns up on re-entry -- Russian space agency

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

An unmanned supply spacecraft burned up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, a week after it suffered a communications failure, the Russian space agency said.

"The Progress M-27M spacecraft ceased to exist at 05:04 Moscow time (0204 GMT) on 8 May 2015," Roscosmos said in a statement. "It entered the atmosphere... over the central part of the Pacific Ocean," the agency added. Endi