Roscosmos: fragments of the Progress M-UM module ship fell into the Pacific Ocean
The instrument and aggregate compartment of the Progress M-UM cargo module has been undocked from the Berth module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and flooded in the Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos reports .
The ship undocked from the station at 02:03 Moscow time. The reduction from near-Earth orbit took place after 5.5 hours. The surviving fragments of the ship fell at 07:30 Moscow time on the "cemetery of spaceships" in the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean.
In December, Teslarati wrote that the Berth node module of the Russian segment of the ISS can be equipped with an International Docking Adapter (IDA) and used for docking American spacecraft Crew Dragon and Starliner.
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Progress M-UM transport cargo ship and the Berth node module launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the ISS on November 24. The undocking of Progress MS-17 together with the spacer of the passive docking unit of the Nauka module from the ISS took place on November 25. The docking of the Progress M-UM module ship with the Berth to the ISS is on November 26.
