Russian says its cargo ship has crashed due to malfunction

AP ^ | December 1 2016

[McGruff]

Russia's space agency says an unmanned cargo space ship that blasted off to the International Space Station has crashed due to an unspecified malfunction.

Roscosmos says in a statement Thursday that the Progress MS-04 cargo craft crashed at the altitude of 190 kilometers (118 miles) over the remote Russian Tyva region that borders Mongolia. It says most of the space ship's debris burnt as it entered the atmosphere.

[McGruff]

Hope it wasn't a Ukrainian missile test gone awry.

[kingu]

... Crashed? Into what at 119 miles up?

Maybe it is a translation error and it lost control or, huh, exploded?

[Sacajaweau]

I’m sure there’s another ready to go...but no one is every happy when something like this happens.

[Red Badger]

crashed at the altitude of 190 kilometers (118 miles)

That's pretty hard to do...............usually aircraft crash at an altitude of 0............

[al baby]

Obamas nose?

[OttawaFreeper]

Was this due to Russian hacking?

[TalonDJ]

I think 119 miles is about right for it to blow up when it ‘crashed’ back into the atmosphere.

[Sacajaweau]

When your computer crashes....It doesn't mean it fell of the desk.

Not really too hard to figure out their wording.

[TalonDJ]

AGL maybe. Around here planes can crash at 10 thousand feet ASL.

[ctdonath2]

“Crashed? Into what at 119 miles up?”

At that speed, the atmosphere.

Kinda like belly-flopping onto water from the Golden Gate Bridge. Like concrete at that speed & surface area.

[cardinal4]

Progress

Nothing has changed over there. I'd expect to see that name in the Soviet Union..

[Red Badger]

I’m in Florida.
My current altitude above sea level is about 12 feet.................

[Berosus]

Now wait a minute, are they saying the rocket crashed 190 kilometers up in the sky? I know the Tuva district has mountains, but none are that high.

[Red Badger]

Heck, it probably IS from the old Soviet Union!................

[Spruce]

Well. It IS rocket science

[Strac6]

Once ze rokets goes up
Who cares vere zey come down,
Zats not my department
says Werner Von Braun

[17th Miss Regt]

Crashed? Into what at 119 miles up?

Santa and reindeer going out to Target. Oops!

[Billthedrill]

You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backward to zero...

[Strac6]

!

(We are dating ourselves ! )

The kid who played Harry Potter can do the Elements song!

[fishtank]

I thought this was going to be a maritime post....