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On Feb. 17, the uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 82 cargo spacecraft undocked without issue from the International Space Station\u2019s Poisk module at 9:26 p.m. EST.\u00a0Following undocking, Expedition 68 cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin sent commands from the station\u2019s Roscosmos segment to rotate the Progress for additional visual inspections\u00a0using space station\u2019s external cameras\u00a0of the general area where a coolant leak occurred on Feb. 11.<\/p>\n
After Progress departure from the space station, flight controllers at Mission Control in Moscow canceled Friday\u2019s scheduled deorbit burn while Roscosmos analyzed the post-undocking imagery collected of the Progress radiator.<\/p>\n
Early Saturday, Roscosmos managers decided to deorbit Progress Saturday, Feb. 18, with a deorbit burn time of 10:15 p.m. EST. Progress remains in a stable configuration and on a safe trajectory well away from the International Space Station.\u00a0Loaded with trash, Progress will deorbit over the Pacific Ocean after spending four months at the station.<\/p>\n
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