Russia: Transport ship Progress M-24M successfully assembled with ISS

Russian Flight Control Center on 24/7 announces that the M-24M Transport vessel has successfully assembled with the International Space Station (ISS) in automatic mode.

Advanced M-24M transport vessel.(Source: itar-tass)

As planned, the M-24M Progress ship was launched into space using a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) in the early morning hours of 24/7.

After 6 hours of flight, the ship has successfully connected to Pirs module on ISS by automatic mode.

Ship Progress M-24M brings up more than 2.3 tons of assorted goods to ISS to ensure the operation and operation of the crew in space, including fuel, scientific equipment, oxygen, water and many other necessities.

Currently, the crew working on ISS has three Russians including Alexander Skvortsov, Oleg Artemyev and Maksim Surayev, two astronauts of the US Space Agency (NASA) Steven Swanson and Reed Uaysmen, the same representative of European Space Agency Alexander Gerst.