The cargo spacecraft of the new series “Progress MS-03″ has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS). On Tuesday, July 19. According to TASS referring to the representative of the Mission Control Center (MCC)
«Joining truck passed cleanly” -. Specified in the MCC. We control the process of cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Anatoly Ivanishin. On the ISS are also Russian Oleg Skripochka, American Jeffrey Williams and Kathleen Rubins and Japanese Takuya Onishi.
«Progress” delivered to the ISS more than 2.4 tons of supplies, including fuel, air, oxygen, food, equipment to maintain the operation of the station and parcels for the crew members, RIA Novosti reported.
launch vehicle “Soyuz-U” with a cargo ship of the new series “Progress MS-03″ was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome 17 of July. Start took place at the calculated time – at 00:41 Moscow time, nine minutes later, the ship separated from the third stage. As reported, the “Progress” was supposed to reach the ISS two days later.
The ships of the new series “Progress MS” differ from previous more protection from space debris and micrometeorites. They are also equipped with redundant electric motors as part of the docking mechanism, a new unified command and telemetry system, rendezvous and docking system “Kurs-NA».
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