Friday, August 14, 2015

The cargo ship “Progress M-26M” undocked from the ISS. Images from space – RIA Novosti

The exhaust the allotted time as part of the International Space Station cargo ship “Progress M-26M” undocked from the station, mixed by from orbit and sunk in the non-navigational area of ​​the Pacific Ocean.

laden Spent equipment and excreta crew ship “Progress M-26M” undocked from the ISS at the estimated time – 13.18 MSK. Told the spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center MCC.

“At 17.17 MSK. Unburned fragments of the ship fell into the non-navigational area of ​​the Pacific Ocean,” – said the official.

Place the fall is known as ” graveyard of spaceships. ” It is about three thousand kilometers east of the capital of New Zealand – Wellington.

The cargo ship “Progress M-26M” launched from Baikonur, previously delivered necessary for the flight crew of the ISS fuel, oxygen, food, equipment for scientific experiments and parcels for cosmonauts and astronauts.

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