Progress transport ship docked at ISS

Russian Progress transport ship on the evening of November 2 came to connect to the International Space Station (ISS), bringing food, water and other scientific equipment to provide for three astronauts on the surface. station, according to AFP.

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The M-13M Progress ship has access to the ISS gateways automatically after 18 hours 41 minutes (VN time) after a three-day journey through space.

Earlier, the transport vessel was brought into space by Soyuz-U boosters from Russia's Baikonur space airport in Kazakhstan on October 30.

In addition to goods that are food (including fruits and vegetables), drinking water, fuel, oxygen ., the Progress M-13M also brought into orbit a small satellite named Chibis-M to study thunder. lightning in the Earth's atmosphere.

As planned, the Progress M-13M will stay until January 25, then leave the station to return "buried" in the Pacific Ocean, carrying waste from the station.

Reportedly, the mission of the Progress M-13M was the first flight to ISS since the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) failed to launch the Progress M-12M over 2 months ago.

The Progress M-12M was launched from Baikonur with Soyuz-U boosters on August 24, however, about 5 minutes after leaving the launch pad, the ship had an accident when it was impossible to fly into orbit due to department malfunction. boosters and fall into Siberia in southern Russia.

Soon after, Roscosmos had to constantly change its spacecraft launch plan to investigate the cause of the accident. In addition to restarting flights to ISS by the recent Progress M-13M, Russia will also resume the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spaceship flight on November 14.

Three astronauts on the ISS are Sergei Volkov (Roscosmos), Michael Fossum (NASA's Aeronautics and Space Agency - NASA) and Satoshi Furukawa (JAXA). All three will return to Earth on November 22nd on Soyuz TMA-02M.