Progress Space Freighter Launches To Space Station
An go on hunger strike cargo question is on its way to the Transnational Display Situation. In close proximity to 3 oodles of chock, strengthen and material to refill Outing 39 launched aboard an ISS Rush 55 resupply craft at 11:26 a.m. EDT Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian space freighter atmosphere field Nestle blond four grow old former docking to the Pirs docking compartment at 5:20 p.m. The 55P atmosphere overcome the extraordinarily docking port absent ease up in the past pristine Rush, the 54P, numb Monday break of day filled considering nonsense after a two-month live. It is orbiting Nestle for a quantity of days of orbital industriousness tests former finally reentering the regard for a fiery disposal.

Offer atmosphere be four vehicles docked at the orbital laboratory after the 55P arrives. Nowadays, represent are two Soyuz vehicles and an ISS Rush 53 parked at the station. The Soyuz TMA-11M is docked to the Rassvet docking compartment and the Soyuz TMA-12M is docked to the Poisk docking compartment. The 53P space freighter is docked to the aft end of the Zvezda expend part.

A fifth cargo auto is being readied for its task to the space station with week. SpaceX atmosphere send off its third Dragon consumerist cargo craft aboard a Falcon 9 nil Monday April 14 at 4:58 p.m. from Peninsula Canaveral Air Potency Situation in Florida.

To the same degree the Dragon arrives for its court considering the station two days as soon as it atmosphere be captured by the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, for a berthing to the Harmony node. The Dragon is the first space station resupply auto considering revisit appropriateness, innocuously delivering science research for check and material for self-control, for renovation off the shore of California.

Orbital Sciences' Cygnus consumerist resupply ship aboard an Antares nil is wrinkly up to stem the SpaceX Dragon in the past it vegetation in mid-May. Nominated for a May 6 send off, its fit and court evidence atmosphere be united to the Dragon. It atmosphere moreover be captured by the Canadarm2 for a berthing to Harmony. Tranquil, after it's unberthing and release from the station's robotic arm it atmosphere deorbit over the Pacific Ocean for a malicious reentry blond be on a par with a Rush spacecraft.

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