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Similar to the manned spacecraft but has been developed separately for many years. This Progress used the same first, second, and I think third, stages of the new Soyuz-2 rocket which I believe will be used for the next manned Soyuz flight so they'll be making sure it isn't a design issue with the rocket before it flies again.
Sounds like it'll reenter within the next couple of days. The assumption is that with that spin the solar panels won't be generating enough power so the batteries will be dead by now so even if they could communicate with it and use the RCS (which isn't working) to stabilise it they've most probably already run out of time.
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