Progress 93 provide and trash removing mission headed to house station

Sept. 11 (UPI) — The unpiloted Progress 93 spacecraft is in orbit and en path to the International Space Station after a profitable launch simply earlier than midday EDT Thursday from a spaceport in Kazakhstan.

The module will travel for two days previous to an autonomous docking at the ISS, scheduled for simply earlier than 1:30 pm EDT Saturday. It is shuttling provides to crew members aboard the ISS, together with three tons of meals, gas and different necessities.

The spacecraft is delivering about three tons of meals, gas, and provides to the house station.

The module was launched atop a Russian Soyuz rocket, which jettisoned its facet boosters about two minutes into the mission. The major gas cell burned for about three minutes earlier than separating from the launch automobile’s higher stage earlier than the Progress 93 went into orbit.

It is scheduled to remain docked on the ISS for about six months, when it’ll then go away loaded with astronaut trash, which can expend, together with the vessel, because it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere.

The Progress 93 is the most recent in a collection of such launches. Progress 92 traveled to the ISS in July on an identical cargo carrying and trash removing mission.