“Fireproof elements were submerged in the“ cemetery of spaceships ”in the non-navigable part of the Pacific Ocean - 3.6 thousand km from Wellington and 5.8 thousand km from Santiago,” Roscosmos said on Twitter.

Earlier on July 26, the Pirs module, which had been in orbit for 20 years, was undocked from the International Space Station using the Progress MS-16 cargo vehicle.

Docking of the Russian module "Science" to the service module "Zvezda" is scheduled for July 29.