Tag: Progress MS-04
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Launch failure probe prompts engine swap on Soyuz crew’s rocket
File photo of a Soyuz rocket’s RD-0110 engine. Credit: Energia Russian engineers will replace rocket engines on two Soyuz rockets assigned to send a batch of supplies and the next crew to the International Space Station after an investigation revealed foreign objects or a manufacturing defect led to the crash of a Progress cargo craft…
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Russian space station cargo freighter lost on launch
Updated at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) Thursday. Russian mission control said Thursday an unpiloted Progress space station supply ship carrying nearly 5,400 pounds of rocket fuel, food, water and a new spacesuit burned up in Earth’s atmosphere shortly after it blasted off from Kazakhstan, and evidence points to a problem with the third stage of the…
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Russian Progress cargo capsule arrives at launch pad
Russia’s next Progress cargo freighter rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday in a final move before blasting off Thursday at the tip of a Soyuz rocket to resupply and refuel the International Space Station. The Progress MS-04 spacecraft and its Soyuz-U booster emerged from an assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome…