Progress cargo ship serving as orbital lab to be sunk in Pacific
Russia's cargo spacecraft Progress that has flown for over a week on a low Earth orbit as a scientific laboratory on Thursday will be sunken in the Pacific, the Mission Control Centre (MCC) outside Moscow told Itar-Tass.
"At 13:33 MSK the Progress M-11M engines are to be switched on for deceleration, the ship will begin a de-orbit manoeuvre and in 48 minutes the cargo spacecraft's unburned fragments will reached the surface of the Pacific" - Mission Control Centre.
The Russian resupply spacecraft Progress is to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday and turn into a scientific laboratory for several days, an official at the Flight Control Centre (FCC) outside Moscow has told Itar-Tass. Read more
The unpiloted Progress 43 cargo ship docks at the International Space Station after its 50-hour journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The automated resupply vehicle contained almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies.