STORY: Debris of Russian cargo spacecraft plunges into Pacific
SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 26, 2025
DATELINE: Feb. 26, 2025
LENGTH: 00:01:30
LOCATION: Moscow
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY/SCIENCE

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Russia's Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft (courtesy of Russian state space corporation Roscosmos) 

STORYLINE:

Debris of Russia's Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft has plunged into the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
   
The cargo spacecraft, which spent six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), was out of orbit, entered the dense layers of the atmosphere and disintegrated. According to the Flight Control Center at TsNIImash (Central Research Institute of Machine Building), the unburned elements of the spacecraft fell into a non-navigable area of the Southern Pacific Ocean, Roscosmos said in a statement.
   
The Progress MS-28 undocked from the ISS at 23:17 Moscow time (2017 GMT) on Tuesday before transitioning into autonomous flight.
   
It arrived at the ISS on Aug. 17, 2024, carrying 2.6 tons of equipment and scientific instruments, clothing, food supplies, gifts for astronauts and other essential cargo. The spacecraft will be replaced by a Progress MS-30.
   
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the new cargo vehicle has already been placed on Launch Pad No. 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch is scheduled for Feb. 28, and docking at the ISS is expected on March 2.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Moscow.
(XHTV)