Debris of Russian cargo spacecraft plunges into Pacific

Vladivostok, Feb. 26 -- Debris from 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 Centre 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.

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