Disposable progress cargo vessel leaves space station for ocean 'cemetery'

Progress MS-01, the first Progress MS series expendable cargo spacecraft, has successfully undocked from the International Space Station and is on course to be submerged in the so-called spacecraft cemetery zone of the southern Pacific Ocean, a representative of Russia's Mission Control Center said Sunday.

Manufactured by the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Progress MS-01 is the first vehicle in Russia's modernized Progress-MS series and is designed to carry out resupply missions to the ISS. The spacecraft was docked to the ISS in December 2015, Sputnik International reported.

Previously, the ISS was resupplied with Progress-M series vehicles, the last of which was submerged in April, 2016. 

On April 2, Progress MS-02, the second modernized Progress MS cargo vessel, automatically docked with the ISS. Progress MS-02 was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket on March 31.

Source: MENA