VLADIVOSTOK: Russia’s Progress MS-22 cargo spacecraft left the International Space Station on Monday morning and sank in a non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean, according to Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos.
Roscosmos said in a statement that today, Progress MS-22 was deorbited, entered the atmosphere and disintegrated. The remaining elements of the ship’s structure fell into a non-navigable section of the southern area of the Pacific Ocean, Xinhua reported.
The spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station service module Zvezda at 2350 GMT Sunday, and the braking engines were fired at 0258 GMT.
Russian Spaceship’s Journey
Progress MS-22 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 9 February by a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket and delivered over 2.5 tons of cargo to the International Space Station two days later. With the help of its engines, the spaceship carried out 7 orbit corrections of the station.
Progress MS-24, a new cargo ship, will arrive at the freed place on the module Zvezda in 4 days. Progress MS-23, which arrived on 24 May, remains part of the International Space Station.
