samedi 11 février 2023

Progress Resupply Mission Docks to Station

 






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Feb 11, 2023

Progress MS-22 docking

Video above: The Progress MS-22 spacecraft autonomously docked to the aft port of the Zvezda service module, on the International Space Station, on 11 February 2023, at 08:45 UTC (03:45 EST). Progress MS-22 (ISS Progress 83 mission) delivers about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 68 crew aboard the International Space Station. Video Credits: NASA TV/Roscosmos/SciNews.

Image above: Final approach of the Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS). Image Credits: NASA TV/Screen capture: Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.

An uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 83 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station’s aft port of the Zvezda service module at 3:45 a.m. EST. The spacecraft launched on a Soyuz rocket at 1:15 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 9 (11:15 a.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Image above: Feb. 11, 2023: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including the Cygnus space freighter, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance, and Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 crew ship and the Progress 82 and 83 resupply ships. Image Credit: NASA.

Progress is delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station for the Expedition 68 crew.

Related links:

Zvezda service module: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/zvezda-service-module.html

International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Images (mentioned), Video (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Mark Garcia.

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