Tag: Progress
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Fiery farewell for Progress as ISS prepares for new arrivals
The International Space Station (ISS) crew are busy preparing for new Visiting Vehicles, as one departed this week. The Russian Progress MS-03/64P resupply provided a stunning farewell as it conducted a destructive re-entry, while the Station prepares to welcome SpaceX Dragons in the near and long term. ISS: Progress MS-03 arrived in July of last…
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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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Progress MS-04/65P fails during launch to the ISS
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched the Progress MS-04/65P resupply mission to the ISS on Thursday at 09:51:52 EST (14:51:52 UTC). The mission was the third of three Russian resupply flights to Station this year and the first of two missions scheduled to launch to ISS in the opening 9 days of December. However,…
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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…
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Video: Two cargo freighters arrive at space station just days apart
The Russian Progress 64P autonomous cargo ship docks to the International Space Station on July 18 to deliver 5,300 pounds of fuel, water and supplies to the orbital complex. It was launched July 16 atop a Soyuz booster. The commercial SpaceX Dragon CRS 9 vessel is captured by the International Space Station’s robotic arm and…
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Russian spacecraft delivers fuel and supplies to space station
The Progress MS-03 spaceship approaches the space station Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Progress refueling and resupply freighter linked up with the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment Monday, two days after blasting off from Kazakhstan with more than 2.6 tons of cargo, propellants and water. The automated spaceship completed a radar-guided docking at…
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Russia Progress MS-03/64P docks with ISS
The Russian Progress MS-03/64P resupply ship has arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, two days after its launch. The mission is the second of three Russian resupply efforts to ISS for 2016 and the second of three missions to the ISS in the last 10 days, following the Soyuz MS-01 crew launch on…
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Photos: Progress MS-03 supply ship fires away from Kazakhstan
Russia’s Progress MS-03 cargo crafted rode a Soyuz rocket into orbit Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, beginning a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station. The kerosene-fueled booster lifted off at 2141 GMT (5:41 p.m. EDT) Saturday, or 3:41 a.m. local time Sunday at Baikonur. The automated rendezvous ended with an on-target linkup with the space…
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Progress supply ship heads for International Space Station
A Soyuz-U rocket launched at 2141 GMT (5:41 p.m. EDT) Saturday with the Progress MS-03 spacecraft with supplies for the International Space Station. The launch occurred at 3:41 a.m. local time Sunday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft laden with 5,300 pounds of fuel and supplies blasted off…