December 23, 2024

Russian Cargo Craft Departs Space Station, Burns Up in Destructive Re-Entry in the Earth’s Atmosphere

By NASA
October 24, 2022

Submit image of Russias Progress 73 cargo craft leaving the International Space Station after undocking from the Pirs docking compartment in 2019. Credit: NASA
At 6:46 p.m. EDT on Sunday, October 23, 2022, the uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 80 spacecraft undocked from the Poisk module on the International Space Station (ISS).
The spacecraft backed away from the space station, and a few hours later, Progress engines fired in a deorbit maneuver to send out the freight craft into a harmful re-entry in the Earths atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
International Space Station Configuration on October 23, 2022. 3 spaceships are docked at the area station consisting of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance, the Soyuz MS-22 team ship and the Progress 81 resupply ship. Credit: NASA
The uncrewed Russian Progress 80 introduced on a Soyuz rocket at 11:25 p.m. EST (9:25 a.m. on February 15 Baikonur time) on Monday, February 14, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The unpiloted freight craft provided almost 3 tons of food, fuel and products to the International Space Station.