MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/. The Progress MS-09 cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, was deorbited and splashed down in a non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean, the Central Research Institute of Machine-Building TsNIIMash (the main research center of the Roscosmos corporation) informed TASS.
"Wreckage from the Progress MS-09 spacecraft that did not burn up in the atmosphere splashed down in a non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean," the research center said.
The spacecraft undocked from the ISS at 15:55 Moscow time.
Progress MS-09 had been attached to the ISS since July 10 after being launched from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, earlier that day. It was the first time a cargo spacecraft had made just two orbits around the Earth before docking, after staying in flight for just 220 minutes. On all previous occasions, the Progress cargo vehicles followed a two-day flight pattern (34 orbits around the Earth) or six-hour pattern (four orbits).
No date for the launch of the next cargo spacecraft, Progress MS-11, has been set yet. Roscosmos has not yet finalized a timetable for cargo and manned spaceflights to the ISS for this year.
