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01/18/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Progress
M-59 transport cargo vehicle was launched to the International
Space Station (ISS) at 05:12:13 Moscow time.
The launch is aimed at delivering more than 2.5 tons of various cargo items to the ISS (equipment for Electron system, oxygen, water and food supplies, propellant, consumables, scientific hardware and equipment, required to continue the station manned operation, and support crew living and working conditions).
PRESS-RELEASE
01/16/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
At
4:00 Moscow time Soyuz launch vehicle was rolled out from
the integration building to the launch pad. Soyuz-U launch
vehicle with Progress M-59 transport vehicle is installed
on the launch pad. L-2 days activities have been started.
Photo-report
01/15/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The
orbital module was integrated with the Soyuz-U launch vehicle
in the processing facility.
Photo-report
Technical management meeting chaired by N.N. Sevastiyanov, President, General Designer of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Manager of Manned Space Complexes flight tests, and the Government Commission meeting were held.
The decision was made to roll out Soyuz-U launch vehicle with Progress M-59 transport vehicle to the launch pad.
Photo-report
01/14/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Orbital module of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle, containing Progress M-59 spacecraft was transported from the spacecraft processing facility for the general integration with LV.
Photo-report
01/13/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Designers inspection of the Progress M-59 cargo vehicle was completed.
Payload shroud roll on to the cargo vehicle was performed.
Photo-report
01/12/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Progress M-59 transport cargo vehicle was docked with the transfer compartment in the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility.
Photo-report
01/11/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
At
SC Assembly and Testing Facility, the poster devoted to
the 100th anniversary of the academician Sergei Pavlovich
Korolev was put up on the launch vehicle fairing.
Photo-report
01/10/2007 Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Progress
M-59 fuelled with propellant components and compressed gases
was delivered to the Spacecraft Assembly and Testing Facility
for final processing operations.
Photo-report
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