The first of two ships with a faulty cooling system will leave the ISS on February 18

Information about this appeared on the Roscosmos website.

It is planned that after the ship departs from the station, the cosmonauts will turn it around with the help of the teleoperator control system and take another picture of the damage site.

“At 07:03 Moscow time, it is planned to turn on the engine to bring the ship out of orbit,” the message says.

It is noted that the fireproof wreckage of the Progress will have to fall in the non-navigable region of the Pacific Ocean.

Earlier, a NASA representative expressed confidence in the safe undocking of Progress MS-21 from the ISS.

It was also reported that the launch of Soyuz MS-23 was postponed until the first decade of March.