A Russian cargo ship will fly to the house station on Friday (Dec. 1), and you’ll watch the occasion dwell.
The Worldwide Area Station (ISS) launch will see a Russian Progress cargo ship fly to house at 4:25 a.m. EST (0925 GMT or 3:25 p.m. native time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. You may watch that occasion dwell right here at Area.com, by way of NASA Tv, about 25 minutes earlier than launch.
On Sunday (Dec. 3) there might be one other dwell occasion with the spaceship, when Progress 86 (additionally designated as MS-25) is predicted to dock with the house station’s Poisk module carrying 5,600 kilos (2,540 kg) of cargo. Docking is scheduled for six:14 a.m. EST (1114 GMT). Protection will start right here at Area.com, by way of NASA Tv, at 5:30 a.m. EST (1030 GMT).
The ISS makes use of resupply ships to offer meals, gear, provides and science for long-duration crews on the orbiting advanced. The Expedition 70 crew on board now noticed the departure of the Progress 84/MS-23 spacecraft on Wednesday (Nov. 29), earlier than burning up within the Earth’s environment as deliberate just a few hours later, NASA officers wrote in a weblog put up.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub just lately “reviewed procedures … for monitoring the approaching cargo craft and practiced remotely controlling” the approaching Progress ship whether it is wanted, NASA officers added. However in a traditional docking, Progress ought to strategy and fix to the house station with out want of crew intervention.
Progress is one among a number of ships tasked with resupplying the ISS. The opposite present autos, each from the USA, are the SpaceX Dragon and Northrop Grumman Cygnus. Progress can be used commonly to spice up the ISS orbit and if needed, to fireside its engine to keep away from orbital particles. NASA has examined boosting the ISS with Cygnus, as a backup.
