Russian Freighter is separated from the ISS to evacuate waste and serve as a laboratory.
Moscow, Aug 31 .- The Russian cargo ship Progress M-06M was separated today from the International Space Station (ISS) for evacuating waste and serve as a laboratory before sinking into the Pacific, reported today the Control Center of the Russian Space Flight ( CCVE).
The ship, which docked with the orbiting platform on 5 July with vital cargo to the crew,, tera gold, will take over a week in the geophysical experiment "Radar-Progress," the source told Interfax.
In the course of the autonomous flight of the cargo, maneuvers were studied using a special radar located in the Siberian city of Irkutsk.
On 6 September the ship left its orbit and provisional, having been burned in the atmosphere, his remains will sink in the "spacecraft cemetery", ffxiv gil, in the Pacific, an area free of shipping to New Zealand 3000 km.
The Progress in July led to the ISS 2.6 tons of fuel reserves, water, oxygen, food, clothes and various equipment such as curtains to enhance the protection of astronauts from radiation.
The current crew of the orbiting platform is composed of Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchijin Mikhail Kornienko and Alexandr Skvortsov, and U.S. astronaut Doug Wheelock, Tracy Caldwell and Shannon Walker.