The Pier module and the Progress spacecraft were successfully flooded in the Pacific Ocean

The docking of the new module with the ISS is scheduled for July 29

MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/. The Pirs module was successfully de-orbited with the help of the Progress cargo ship and sunk in the non-navigable region of the Pacific Ocean. This was reported on Monday in Roscosmos.

The fall of the fireproof structural elements of the cargo ship #Progress of MS16 and the module #The pier occurred in a non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean.

Thank you for your work, "Progress" and "Pier"! pic.twitter.com/rKLAUr750g

- ROSCOSMOS (@roscosmos) July 26, 2021

"At 17: 42 Moscow time, a bundle of the ship and the module entered the dense layers of the Earth's atmosphere. After another 10 minutes, the fireproof elements were flooded at the spacecraft cemetery in the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean, 3.6 thousand km from the city of Wellington and 5.8 thousand km from the city of Santiago," the report says.

According to Roscosmos, "Pier" became the first module of the station, which was undocked from it.

"This operation made it possible to release the docking node of the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the ISS to receive the multi-purpose laboratory module Nauka, which was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 21, 2021," Roscosmos noted.

The docking of the new module with the ISS is scheduled for July 29.