ROSCOSMOS - Russian Vehicles patch.
01.08.2014
August 1 at 02:42 MSK in a predetermined area of the Pacific Ocean produced flooding incombustible residue cargo vehicle (THC) Progress M-23M. In accordance with the program laid down in the ship's on-board computer specialists Mission Control Center (MCC) FSUE TsNIIMash on "space truck" was included on the inhibition of the propulsion system, and then began a controlled reduction of THC from orbit.
Rocket Soyuz-U with (THC) Progress M-23M was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome April 9, 2014 at 19 hours 26 minutes Moscow time. April 10, 2014 in 1 hour 20 minutes Moscow time was out docking the cargo spacecraft Progress M-23M from the International Space Station. Docked to the docking bay, Pierce (DC1) of the Russian segment of the ISS the undocking was performed in automatic mode.
Progress M-23M
Cargo spaceship delivered to the ISS more than 2.5 tonnes of goods: fuel, food, send the crew, equipment, water and other consumable materials necessary for the operation of the station in manned mode. In the ISS (TGC) Progress M-23M was docked 104 days.
Undocking TGC to the ISS on July 22, 2014 at 01:44 MSK. After her Progress for 10 days in the free flight, during which the experiment was conducted Radar-Progress. The purpose of this experiment is to determine the spatial and temporal dependencies of density, temperature, ionic composition local ionospheric inhomogeneities resulting from the on-board liquid-propellant rocket engines. The experiment has been involved full-time equipment: propulsion, radio VHF (TORU), as well as ground-based radio observations of the complex.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/20811/
Image, Text, Credits: Roscosmos press service / ROSCOSMOS / NASA / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
