16 Jul 2013 16:51

Panel from ISS's Russian segment carries no threat - Roscosmos

MOSCOW. July 16 (Interfax-AVN) - The panel from the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) is no threat to people or infrastructure on the ground," spokeswoman for the federal space agency Roscosmos, Anna Vedishcheva, told Interfax-AVN.

"This structure poses no threat to ground infrastructure," she said in comments on reports that an eleven-kilogram research panel from the Russian segment of the ISS, lost during Russian cosmonauts' space walk in April, has deorbited.