VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) — Russia’s Progress MS-30 cargo spacecraft has completed its mission and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on Tuesday.
“According to data from the Mission Control Center of the Central Research Institute of Machine Building, non-burned structural elements of the spacecraft fell into a non-navigable area of the South Pacific Ocean,” Roscosmos said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
Progress MS-30 undocked from the Zvezda module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) at 18:45 Moscow time (1545 GMT) on Tuesday. Its place will be taken by the Progress MS-32 cargo ship, scheduled to launch on Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz-2.1a rocket, with docking to the ISS planned for Saturday.
Progress MS-30 was launched on Feb. 28 and docked with the ISS on March 2. It delivered 2.6 tons of cargo, including equipment and hardware for the station’s systems, scientific experiments and a new Orlan-MKS No. 6 spacesuit for work in outer space. ■