The Progress MS-14 spacecraft was launched to the ISS from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 25. He set a record for the longest stay in orbit
MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/. The Progress MS-14 space cargo ship, which spent more than a year in orbit, was driven out of orbit and burned up in the atmosphere on Thursday night. The unburned parts were flooded in the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos said in a statement.
"Progress MS-14" descended from near-Earth orbit and ceased to exist. Unburned fragments of the ship in the Earth's atmosphere fell at about 03: 42 Moscow time on the "cemetery of spacecraft" in the non-navigable area of the South Pacific Ocean, " the report says.
The estimated area of impact of the unburned fragments of the ship is located in the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean, about 3,150 km from Wellington and 7,390 km from the city of Santiago.
The spacecraft undocked from the Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday night. After that, he was in autonomous flight. The specialists planned to test a new system for building orientation in case of flooding on the Progress MS-14.
The Progress MS-14 spacecraft was launched to the ISS from the Baikonur cosmodrome on April 25, 2020. With its help, 10 orbit corrections were made, two of them unscheduled to avoid space debris. This ship set a record for the longest stay in orbit. Before that, the record belonged to Progress M-17, which in 1993-1994 spent 337 days in space, delivering cargo to the Mir space station.
Progress MS is a Russian automatic spacecraft that was created specifically for servicing orbital stations. It is used to deliver various cargo to the ISS (fuel, scientific equipment, oxygen, water, food, etc.), as well as to adjust its orbit.
