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

The transport cargo ship new series “Progress MS” downloaded accumulated on the International Space Station debris, including engine braking, and began the descent from Earth orbit

«made inclusion of propulsion of the ship”, -. Tass reported in the Mission control Center
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. 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.

«Progress MS” was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome December 21, 2015, and docked with the ISS two days later. July 1 ship undocked from the ISS as part of verification manual mode and back in half an hour in the station.

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