The spacecraft “Progress MC” started to fall into the Pacific Ocean – TASS

MOSCOW, July 3. / TASS /. Transport cargo ship new series “Progress MS” loaded accumulated on the International Space Station debris, including engine braking, and began the descent to Earth orbit

“Made inclusion of propulsion of the ship”, -. Told Tass in the Control Center flight.

About an hour is not burned during the passage of the dense layers of the atmosphere shipwreck reached the surface of the Pacific ocean and will be flooded in the so-called “graveyard of spaceships,” a few thousand kilometers away from the New Zealand capital of Wellington. The area is falling away from the shipping lanes.

“MS Progress” was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome December 21, 2015, and docked with the ISS two days later. July 1 ship undocked from the International Space Station as part of the verification regime of manual control, and within half an hour back into the station.

Series ships “Progress MS” have additional protection from space debris and micrometeorites, redundant electric motors as part of the docking mechanism, a new unified command and telemetry system, rendezvous and docking system “Kurs-NA”. On the new “Progressive MS” installed special launch canisters, which will be up to eight microsatellites.