Mission at the near-earth orbit of the Progress MS-14 Transport Cargo Ship, which lasted a little over a year, comes to its completion. In accordance with the program of the flight of the International Space Station on April 28, 2021 at 02:11:30 Moscow time, he was minted from the “Star” module of the Russian segment of the ISS.
Luches between the Russian “space truck” and the ISS were closed on April 19, 2021. Tonight at 02:10 Moscow time, a team was issued to open the hooks of the Progress MS-14 ship, he was rejected from the station and sent “to free swimming”, which would last day. At this time, specialists of the Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. The queen (part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) will work out a new system for building an orientation during flooding of cargo ships.
Brake engines will be included at 03:01:28 Moscow time April 29 and will work four minutes. By calculating the service of ballistic support of the station, “Progress MS-14” will enter the tight layers of the atmosphere at 03:34:23 Moscow time. The estimated area of the fall of unburned fragments of the ship is approximately 3,150 km from Wellington and 7,390 km from Santiago city. Roskosmos State Corporation fulfilled the necessary procedures for establishing this area temporarily dangerous for swimming sea and aircraft flights.
Note that the MS-14 Progress Cargo ship will spend a record year and four days in an near-earth orbit, surpassing the achievement of the Progress M-17 ship, which in 1993-1994. Spent in space 337 days, delivering goods to the orbital complex “Peace”. With it, 10 corrections of the height of the orbit of the International Space Station were also performed, two of them are unscheduled to evasion from “cosmic garbage”.