Russian Emergencies Ministry specialists have reportedly found a fragment of the Russian Progress MS-04 cargo spacecraft in Siberia. On December 1, the cargo spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan to resupply the International Space Station (ISS), but telemetry was lost 382 seconds into the flight.
It was earlier believed that fragments may have fallen near a Siberian village -- Ishtii-Khem.
"Right now law enforcement members have organized the protection of the object until members of the Roscosmos [Russian space agency] arrive," said the representative, RIA Novosti reported.
The fragment was found around 120km from the city of Kyzyl.
Progress MS-04 was carrying over 2.6 metric tons of food, fuel and supplies for crew aboard the ISS. "Our astronauts and the Russian cosmonauts are safe aboard the station. Consumables aboard the station are at good levels," NASA said in a blog post.
The next resupply mission for ISS will be taking place next week and there is also one slated for early 2017, according to reports.
Currently, it is only the Soyuz rockets that take people to the ISS, but in the future two US private companies -- SpaceX and Boeing -- too will begin ferrying people and supplies.
