Progress MS-32 resupply ship goes into orbit, is on its method to ISS

Progress MS-32 resupply ship goes into orbit, is on its method to ISS

MOSCOW. Sept 11 (Interfax) – The Soyuz-2.1a rocket has taken into the orbit the Progress MS-32 resupply ship, in response to a Roscosmos broadcast.

The ship separated from the primary stage of the rocket and headed to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight of the ship will happen in response to a two-day scheme.

The docking with the Zvezda module of the Russian section of the ISS is scheduled for 8:27 p.m. Moscow time on September 13.

During its flight, the Progress MS-32 will orbit Earth 34 occasions, it should take it 49 hours 33 minutes to succeed in the station.

The resupply ship will take to the ISS greater than 2.5 tonnes of cargo, together with greater than 1.1 tonnes of dry cargo for ISS Expedition 73 and the station’s techniques, 870 kilos of gasoline for refueling the ISS, 420 kilos of consuming water, and 50 kilos of air for replenishing the environment.

The new Orlan-ISS 7 spacesuit for working in outer area may even be delivered to the ISS.

A crew of seven folks – Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexei Zubritsky and Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Jonathan Kim and Michael Fincke, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui – is now engaged on the ISS.