MOSCOW, August 21 Progress MS-22 cargo spacecraft, which left the ISS, in which it spent more than six months, was flooded in a non-navigable area Pacific Ocean, Roskosmos reported on its website.
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» Today «Progress MS-22» de-orbited, re-entered the atmosphere and disintegrated. The unburned structural elements of the ship fell in the non-navigable area of the South Pacific Ocean,” the statement says. At 05:58 Moscow time, its propulsion system began braking. After that, Progress deorbited and disintegrated in the atmosphere.
Progress MS-22 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on February 9 by a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, and two days later it was delivered to ISS more than 2.5 tons of cargo. With the help of the ship's engines, ten corrections were made to the station's orbit, Roskosmos recalled.
A new Progress MS-24 truck will arrive at the space vacated on the Zvezda module in four days. Progress MS-23, which arrived on May 24, also remains at the station.
Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Francisco Rubio, Steven Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultana Al -Neyadi.