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Soyuz-2.1A rocket with Progress MS-21 truck launched from Baikonur.

Soyuz-2.1A rocket with Progress MS-21 cargo spacecraft launched from Baikonur.

03:26 10/26/2022 (updated: 03:30 10/26/2022

KOROLEV (Moscow region), October 26 - RIA Novosti. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Progress MS-21 cargo ship, which will go to the International Space Station, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the Mission Control Center near Moscow, where the launch is being broadcast.

In a few minutes, the rocket should take the ship into low Earth orbit, after which it will begin an independent flight to the ISS. Progress will make 34 orbits around the Earth and dock with the station at 5.50 Moscow time on October 28. In total, he will have to stay in space for about eight months.

Progress MS-21 will deliver more than 2.5 tons of cargo to the ISS - fuel for the station, drinking water, nitrogen to maintain the atmosphere on the ISS, resource equipment for the Russian segment systems, personal protective equipment, medical control and sanitary and hygienic equipment, new clothing, diets and fresh produce.

In addition, the truck is packed with equipment for conducting experiments on the study of the digestive and immune systems, human bone tissue in space, pollution from the station's engines, and the study of stratus clouds in the atmosphere. Also in the cargo compartment are spools of filament for use as a consumable in a 3D printer.

https://ria.ru/20221026/soyuz-21a-1826797888.html

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Progress 82 Cargo Craft Safely in Orbit Following Launch

Heidi Lavelle Posted on October 25, 2022

The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 82 is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following launch at 8:20 p.m. EDT (5:20 a.m. Baikonur time) Tuesday, Oct. 25, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The resupply ship reached preliminary orbit and deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas as planned on its way to meet up with the orbiting laboratory and its Expedition 68 crew members.

Progress will dock to the space-facing side of the Poisk module two days from now, on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 10:49 p.m. EDT Live coverage on NASA TV of rendezvous and docking will begin at 10:15 p.m. EDT.

Progress will deliver almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2022/10/25/progress-82-cargo-craft-safely-in-orbit-following-launch/

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