“Progress-M27M” with the banner of Victory launch to the ISS from Baikonur – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, April 28 – RIA Novosti. The launch of “Soyuz-2.1a” with a space truck “Progress-M27M” that takes on the International Space Station (ISS), a copy of the Victory Banner, scheduled for April 28 at 10.10 MSK from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, told RIA Novosti the Mission Control Center (MCC).

“This is the second test launch of a cargo ship on the launch vehicle” Soyuz-2.1a. “Branch” Progress M 27M “from the third stage of the launch vehicle” Soyuz “is scheduled to 10.18 MSK. Docking with the ISS space truck to be held in 16.07 MSK in automatic mode”, – told the agency.

The space truck to deliver to the ISS more than 2.5 tonnes of payloads for different purposes: fuel, oxygen, food, equipment for scientific experiments, for sending cosmonauts and astronauts.