“In accordance with the flight program of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, today, on July 26, 2021, the bundle undocked from the Progress MS-16 transport cargo vehicle and the Pirs docking module-module from the ISS.
Now the ship and the module are in autonomous flight and are preparing to enter the Earth's atmosphere, "- said in a statement on the website of" Roskosmos ".
As expected, at 17:51 Moscow time, non-combustible structural elements of the ship and the module will fall in the calculated zone of the non-navigable region of the Pacific Ocean.
The estimated area of the fall of the unburned fragments of the ship is 3,630 km from the city of Wellington and 5,870 km from the city of Santiago.
On the eve it was reported that the undocking of the Pirs module from the ISS, which should be replaced by the new Nauka module, will take place on July 26.