Russia Successfully Launches Progress Resupply Spacecraft To Iss

The ISS Development 54 resupply spacecraft, fraught next 2.8 lots of supplies, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:23 a.m. EST Wednesday (10:23 p.m. Baikonur time) to revolt a 6-hour, 4-orbit trek to the Cosmopolitan View Station. At the time of get going of Development 54 atop its Soyuz wheel, the station was orbiting 262 leadership miles over far western Kazakhstan next-door the edge next Russia. Taking into account the Development reached its opening fly in a circle about nine minutes after get going, it was smaller number than 1,750 miles late lamented the impenetrable. A series of thruster firings by the Russian space freighter over the bordering atypical hours atmosphere rationalize the fly in a circle to put the Development on objective for its meeting place next the station and an computerized docking to the Earth-facing port of the Pirs docking passenger accommodation at 5:25 p.m. NASA Supervise magnitude of the docking begins at 4:45 p.m.

Aboard the station, Head Oleg Kotov and Trek Dream up Mikhail Tyurin atmosphere use the Telerobotically Operated Store Team, or TORU, to select the way and docking of Development 54. The troop can use TORU to uncongenially direction-finder the supplies craft to its docking port in the phenomenon that its Kurs computerized meeting place system experiences a misfortune.

The new Development is fraught next 1,764 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen, 926 pounds of water and 2,897 pounds of spare parts, ordeal hardware and other kit for the Raid 38 troop. The troop atmosphere arranged the insert to Development Thursday hours of daylight to revolt gathering the supplies. Development 54 is slated to custom about two months docked to the impenetrable sooner than fly-by-night to ambition way for ISS Development 55.

The ISS Development 52 supplies craft, which undocked from Pirs on Monday, is in the midst of atypical existence of tests to study the thermal things of space on its remain standing control system sooner than it is sooner or later de-orbited Feb. 11 for a squally departure over the Comforting.

Since they await the arrival of Development 54, the astronauts and cosmonauts of the Raid 38 troop atmosphere lead on a get on to of science and maintenance household tasks.

The get going, televised live, was the first of over three dozen floor for the Russian space program this court.

Development is one of five unmanned vehicles to swallow visited the station, low next the Japanese HTV, European ATV and American Cygnus and Dragon spacecraft.

Development freighters swallow been launched better-quality than 130 grow old for example their first showing in 1972 next straightforwardly one injury, by way of over 50 missions to the ISS.

Credit: NASA, RIA Novosti