Russia's Progress cargo ship launches to ISS

Russia's Progress cargo ship launches to ISS
© Photo: the Yuzhny Space Center

A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with the Progress MS-27 resupply ship has blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome towards the International Space Station (ISS).

In about 9 minutes, the space freighter was delivered into orbit. The flight will last 50 hours and four minutes. In two days after the blast-off, the resupply ship will approach the orbital outpost.

The docking with the Poisk mini-research module is scheduled for 2:47 p.m. Moscow time (11:47 a.m. GMT) on June 1. The space freighter will stay in orbit for 173 days.

The resupply ship will deliver 2,504 kg of cargo to the ISS.

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