In particular, the mission of the Progress M-UM spacecraft has ended
MOSCOW, December 23. /tass/. The program of dynamic operations that were planned for the Russian segment of the ISS in 2021 has been completed. This was announced by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin on Thursday.
"The program of dynamic operations on the PC (Russian segment) This year's ISS is completed," Rogozin wrote in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, the state corporation reported on the completion of the mission of the Progress M-UM ship and its sinking in the Pacific Ocean. The head of Roscosmos clarified that the flooding of the instrument-aggregate compartment of the Progress M-UM spacecraft occurred at 07:31 Moscow Time in the South Pacific Ocean.
The instrument-assembly compartment undocked from the Berth node module of the Russian segment of the ISS at 02:03 Moscow time. At 06:45 Moscow time, the propulsion system was switched on for braking and worked for about 13 minutes. After that, Progress M-UM descended from orbit and about 24 minutes later entered the dense layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
As part of the Progress M-UM module ship, the Berth node module was launched on November 24. The docking with the Russian segment of the ISS took place on November 26.
