MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. The Russian Progress MS-15 resupply ship will undock from the International Space Station and splash down in the Pacific Ocean outside shipping routes on Tuesday, the press service of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said.
The cargo spacecraft is due to undock from the ISS at 08:21 a.m. Moscow time and switch to an autonomous flight. The spacecraft’s propulsion unit will be activated for braking at 11:30 a.m. Moscow time. It will operate for 3.4 minutes, Roscosmos said.
"In accordance with the Mission Control Center’s data, at 12:04 p.m. Moscow Time, the Progress MS-15 cargo spacecraft will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere," the state corporation said in a statement.
The cargo spacecraft’s non-combustible structural elements will fall in the non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos specified.
The Progress MS is a Russian automated spacecraft developed specially for servicing orbital stations. Russia launches Progress MS spaceships to deliver various cargoes to the orbital outpost (propellant, scientific equipment, oxygen, water, food and other items) and also to adjust the space station’s orbit.
Currently, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, US astronauts Kathleen Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi are working on the International Space Station.