Progress M-27M (59P) tumbled out of control after reaching orbit when a design flaw in the new Soyuz-2.1a upper stage caused resonant vibration that damaged the spacecraft's propulsion lines, dooming the ISS resupply mission; it reentered uncontrolled on May 8.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 6th
- of 57 Soyuz 2.1a flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 2015, 07:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1a
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2015-024
- Launches in 2015
- 25th of 87
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