S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE PUBLIC CORPORATION ENERGIA OPEN MCC. Cargo vehicle Progress МS-07 is deorbited
April 26, 2018On April 26, 2018 transport cargo vehicle (ТCV) Progress МS-07 completed its mission.
Nominally, TCV Progress МS-07 departed from the docking compartment Pirs (DC1) of the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS) at 16:50:30 Moscow time on March 28, 2018.
After undocking space vehicle Progress МS-07 continued its orbital flight in an automatic mode during which applied scientific research and experiments were conducted.
According to the flight program of TCV Progress МS-07 on April 26, 2018 at 07:08 Moscow time the propulsion system fired a de-boost burn. The engine was running for 205 sec.
At 07:42 Moscow time the vehicle re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, and at 07:51 Moscow time its structural elements that had not burned up in the atmosphere impacted an area in the Pacific Ocean located far off the shipping lanes.
Transport cargo vehicle Progress МS-07 was part of the ISS from October 16, 2017.
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