ISS-64 mission
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![]() NewsProgress MS-16 is on the road to the ISSFebruary 15, 2021Today, on February 15, 2021 at 07:45:05 Moscow time launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1à carrying the cargo transportation spacecraft Progress MS-16 was successfully launched from Launch Pad No.6 of Area 31 of the Baikonur Launch Site under the International Space Station flight program. According to the telemetry information in 8 minutes 48 seconds a nominal separation of the spacecraft from the launcher upper stage was recorded, the solar arrays and antennas are deployed. The launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1à successfully injected the Russian spacecraft into a planned orbit. Specialists from the Lead Operational Control Team for ISS Russian Segment of the International Space Station in Korolev proceeded to the flight control. The parameters of the Progress MS-16 injection orbit:
The flight of the Progress MS-16 cargo spacecraft to the ISS will be carried out using a two-day rendezvous capability, the docking to the Pirs module of the Russian Segment is scheduled for February 17, 2021 at 09:20 Moscow time. The final approach is planned to be carried out automatically under control of specialists of the Mission Control Center (forms part of the State Corporation Roscosmos) and Russian ISS-64 Expedition crewmembers, i.e. Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov. The new cargo spacecraft is carrying 600 kg of resupply propellant, 420 liters of portable water of the Rodnik system and 40.5 kg of compressed gasses with additional nitrogen supplies, as well as about 1 400 kg of various equipment and materials including hardware for onboard control and life support systems, kits for space experiments, medical monitoring and sanitary and hygienic items, articles of clothing, standard food ratios and fresh products for the crewmembers. The cargo compartment accommodates a repair and recovery assembly consisting of a set of reinforcing adhesive cover plates intended for temporary sealing of the defects detected in the pressure shell of the transfer chamber of the ISS Zvezda Service Module. Within the implementation of the Russian science and applied research program the spacecraft carries equipment for performing the following science experiments:
Currently, the ISS- 64 Expedition crew consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, NASA astronauts Kathleen Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi are working aboard the International Space Station.
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