The long sought attempt at launching a Russian Progress resupply vehicle to the International Space Station and having it rendezvous with the orbital complex after just two and a half orbits and just under 4 hours in space is being attempted. Roscosmos launched the Progress MS-09 craft at 17:51:33 EDT (2151:33 UTC) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with docking to the Space Station scheduled at 21:31 EDT (0131 UTC on 10 July) – just 3 hours 40 minutes after launch.
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The Russian Progress resupply ship MS-08 has docked with the International Space Station, two days…
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The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, launched the Progress MS-05/66P resupply mission on Wednesday morning…
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In the month and a half since the Progress MS-04 spacecraft was lost in a…
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched the Progress MS-04/65P resupply mission to the ISS…
The Russian Progress MS-03/64P resupply ship has arrived at the International Space Station on Monday,…
The Russian resupply vehicle Progress MS-01 (P-62) has departed from the International Space Station (ISS)…
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As construction on the second CST-100 Starliner for Boeing’s Commercial Crew Transportation initiative continues in…
Russia’s Progress MS-2 cargo vehicle has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on…
NASA teams are continuing to evaluate the root cause of the water leak that resulted…
The first of the upgraded Russian Progress resupply vehicles launched atop the Soyuz 2-1A from…
Boeing is making impressive strides on a series of tests and technical verifications for their CST-100 Starliner…