Today in the morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the ISS was launched a carrier rocket “Soyuz-U” with transport cargo vehicle “Progress M-28M” on board There are more than 2.5 tons of cargo. It is expected that the “Progress” moored to the ISS on July 5. In April, launch of “Progress” ended his uncontrollable descent from orbit and subsequent loss.
«Start was nominally”, – reported in the Mission Control Center (MCC).
During start watching Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian Space Agency, Igor Komarov, and the heads of enterprises of the rocket and space industry.
« After separation of the spacecraft from the third stage of the launch vehicle experts MCC started to manage its flight. The parameters of the orbit, which launched the transport ship, according to preliminary data service ballistics navigation support MCC close to the settlement, “- said the MCC.
It is expected that the” Progress “should dock with the ISS on Sunday, July 5 at 10:13. Russian trucks will deliver to the station more than 2.5 tons of cargo for the 44th expedition to the ISS operates: fuel to maintain orbit station, food, water and air for the crew, equipment for the ISS, scientific loads.
Telemetry with “Progress M-28M” was first adopted at the cosmodrome East.
This is the first accident after the April launch of the Russian space cargo ship. April 28 modernized carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1a” with the cargo ship “Progress M-27M” launched from Baikonur, but the separation of the ship from the third stage carrier passed abnormally, the space truck turned into an unplanned orbit in the strong twist. Docking with the ISS had to be canceled. Then began the descent of uncontrolled orbit. The truck burned down over the central part of the Pacific Ocean on May 8.
Two months later, on June 28, the American rocket Falcon 9 with a cargo ship Dragon company Space X had an accident at the start. The truck was supposed to deliver to the ISS NASA commissioned by nearly 2 tons of cargo.
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