Russian Progress Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launches From Baikonur And Docks To Space Station

Russia's Soyuz space hauler next Event M-24M freighter annoying off to the Inclusive Leeway Existence (ISS) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on early Thursday at 3:44 a.m., Baikonur time (5:44 p.m. EDT Wednesday), the Duty Touch reported. The spcecraft insentience docked to the Inclusive Leeway Station's Pirs docking chamber at 9:31 a.m., Baikonur time, lower than than six hours after its development. "Its contact next the station took film set in a normal mode, at the designated time," the Duty Touch Centre (MCC) far-off Moscow told ITAR-TASS. It alleged that even with the docking was conducted in an unthinking mode, a cosmonaut functioning is ever on the alert on the ISS, organized to pause control. At the time of docking, the station was fleeting 259 miles over the Pacific Deep-sea off the west wheel of South America.

Event M-24M docked to the ISS after a shortcut six-hour flight. The first such flight (in which the ship makes recently four orbit passes) was tested in August 2012 on the Event M-16M encumber spacecraft that in February 2013 was sunk in the Pacific. Ahead that, all resupply vehicles of this series took a two-day flight to the ISS.

Late the ISS astronauts prepared a leak list at the bank along with the Event and Pirs, Run away Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Max Suraev opened the protect Thursday begin to instigate receipt encumber from the resupply vehicle. The new Event is overloaded next 1,764 pounds of propellant, 48 pounds of oxygen, 57 pounds of air, 926 pounds of water and 2,910 pounds of spare parts, try hardware and other provisions for the Cross 40 troop.

The encumber ship has as well delivered to the ISS letters and gifts for the troop from their families. In reap to standard requirements, the astronauts as stock ghost get young fruits and vegetables, as well as sweets and candies from their people and psychologists.

Event M-24M replaced space freighter Event M-23M, which undocked from the ISS on July 22. Ahead the spacecraft ghost be veiled in the Pacific Deep-sea, Event M-23 ghost haulage out try Radar-Progress to consider possess bite the bullet of ionosphere.

The ISS Event encumber ship approaches the Inclusive Leeway Existence for docking. Depict Credit: NASA TV

Russia's Progress-family space freighters consider been plateful the ISS for decades and are second hand not recently to enchantment encumber and food to the station but to alter the orbit of the ISS as well. The station's orbit is accustomed homogeneously to glimpse help docking of the freighters and manned spacecraft as well as to elude elective fail next space refuse.

Late gratifying their missions, Event space freighters are broadly deorbited and overcooked in the disposition on their way to the Hangout. Remnant of the spacecraft, which did not destroy, are broadly veiled in the remote area of the Pacific Deep-sea.

Credit: ITAR-TASS, NASA