Despite the incident, the supply ship still reached ISS

After a two-day journey, on the evening of April 26, the Progress M-19M transport spacecraft flew to connect to the International Space Station (ISS), even though the ship had previously failed to deploy. be one of its positioning antennas, according to RIA Novosti.

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The US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said that the Progress M-19M has completed the automatic connection to the Zvezda logistics module at 19:30 pm on April 26 (VN time). .

After checking the connection processes, the astronauts on the station opened the hatch to enter the supply ship at 22:39, and began moving 2.5 tons of goods including food, fuel and Scientific equipment into the station.

The Progress M-19M is flying to connect to ISS

Earlier, the Progress M-19M was abandoned by the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) at the Russian Baikonur space airport in Kazakhstan at 17.12 hours on April 24 (VN time).

It is expected that the ship will leave the station on June 11 to make room for the European transport ship named Albert Einstein (ie ATV4) to arrive on June 15.

It is known that after going into orbit, a positioning antenna of the Progress M-19M vessel was unable to deploy even though the experts of Roscosmos repeatedly tried to activate it.

RIA Novosti quoted Vladimir Popovkin's Roscosmos director as saying that the astronauts on the station would not dismantle the antenna because it was attached to the ship with explosive bolts. He also said that the broken antenna is no longer needed.

Currently ISS currently has six people living and working on the 35th ISS International Fleet. In it, commander Chris Hadfield (CSA) and Tom Marshburn (US Aeronautics and Space Agency) - NASA) and Roman Romanenko (Roscosmos) were put on the station by Soyuz spacecraft TMA-07M on December 21, 2012, expected to return to Earth in May.

The three remaining astronauts, Chris Cassidy (NASA), Alexander Misurkin and Pavel Vinogradov (Roscosmos), were put on the station by Soyuz TMA-08M on March 28, and will return in September.